Coimbatore: Those who had been in a queue to solid their votes on the R S Puram Boys High School had been taken aback when they noticed a bunch of ladies, mostly in their overdue 70s, strolling against the sales space around 10.30am. They had been followed by way of extra in their 90s, being carried in wheelchairs. All of them had colourful voter ID cards and sales space slips in their arms.
Marudhatha, whose face was once lined with as many wrinkles as her age, looked around in surprise as she was once slowly wheeled into the polling sales space after a 10-minute wait. She got here out with a smile on her face. “I've completed vote casting,” she said with a sigh of aid. Though she insisted that she voted 5 years ago, Mahendran of Eera Nenjam Trust, who picked up the nonagenarian from the streets of Gandhipuram, said it will have to be 10 to 15 years since she voted. “I used to have my vote in Nallampalayam,” Marudhatha told TOI.
Marudhatha was once probably the most 59 inmates of the shelter run by way of the accept as true with, who solid their votes on Thursday despite having no prior documentation. Out of the 59 electorate, at least 10 other folks had been vote casting for the first time, Mahendran said.
“Since my parents died when I used to be a bit boy, I don’t know my age or the rest about elections. But I am still glad that I did one thing, that everybody dwelling around us appears to be doing these days,” said Krishnaswamy, who was once in his 50s.
“I don’t know the rest about vote casting or elections. I don’t know what to really feel,” said 42-year-old Shakti Priya, who got here out looking bewildered after casting vote.
While the inmates of the shelter casting vote served democracy, it served every other important goal of finally giving them an identification evidence. “Most of these other folks were rescued from the streets where they had been begging. They had completely no paperwork or ID cards when we rescued them,” said Mahendran. “However, for the whole thing right from admitting them into GH, applying for old-age pension, unfastened wheelchair, synthetic limb, taking them outstation and finally cremating them, we need an identification evidence. Now with this voter ID, which displays that they are Indian electorate, we will be able to follow for an Aadhaar card and get other benefits.”
Mahendran and colleague began the process for arranging voter ID cards for the aged two months ago. “We saved writing to the collector’s workplace and the President about our situation. A month ago, a revenue officer and village administrative officer visited the shelter and said they had been going to offer the inmates ID cards. We won them only a few days ago,” said Mahendran.
Marudhatha, whose face was once lined with as many wrinkles as her age, looked around in surprise as she was once slowly wheeled into the polling sales space after a 10-minute wait. She got here out with a smile on her face. “I've completed vote casting,” she said with a sigh of aid. Though she insisted that she voted 5 years ago, Mahendran of Eera Nenjam Trust, who picked up the nonagenarian from the streets of Gandhipuram, said it will have to be 10 to 15 years since she voted. “I used to have my vote in Nallampalayam,” Marudhatha told TOI.
Marudhatha was once probably the most 59 inmates of the shelter run by way of the accept as true with, who solid their votes on Thursday despite having no prior documentation. Out of the 59 electorate, at least 10 other folks had been vote casting for the first time, Mahendran said.
“Since my parents died when I used to be a bit boy, I don’t know my age or the rest about elections. But I am still glad that I did one thing, that everybody dwelling around us appears to be doing these days,” said Krishnaswamy, who was once in his 50s.
“I don’t know the rest about vote casting or elections. I don’t know what to really feel,” said 42-year-old Shakti Priya, who got here out looking bewildered after casting vote.
While the inmates of the shelter casting vote served democracy, it served every other important goal of finally giving them an identification evidence. “Most of these other folks were rescued from the streets where they had been begging. They had completely no paperwork or ID cards when we rescued them,” said Mahendran. “However, for the whole thing right from admitting them into GH, applying for old-age pension, unfastened wheelchair, synthetic limb, taking them outstation and finally cremating them, we need an identification evidence. Now with this voter ID, which displays that they are Indian electorate, we will be able to follow for an Aadhaar card and get other benefits.”
Mahendran and colleague began the process for arranging voter ID cards for the aged two months ago. “We saved writing to the collector’s workplace and the President about our situation. A month ago, a revenue officer and village administrative officer visited the shelter and said they had been going to offer the inmates ID cards. We won them only a few days ago,” said Mahendran.
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