A meeting of the Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Committee held here on Friday under the chairmanship of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar decided various steps to create awareness for adequate voters’ participation in the upcoming elections.
Accordingly, ‘Voters Awareness Forums’ will be set up in all Government, non-Government and corporate establishments to make the employees aware about the handling of EVM with VVPATs with a view to augmenting the percentage of votes.
Kumar elaborated about the role of SVEEP with senior officers of various Government departments and corporate establishments like Nalco, SAIL, OMC, IOCL, MCL and State Bank of India.
To create wide-spread awareness, Kumar underlined the choice of instruments like video spots in cinema halls, radio jingles, video ads on the use of EVMs with VVPATS and banners along with posters in railway stations, setting up of hoardings by the Information and Public Relations Department in crowded places and putting awareness messages on buses, telephone bills, milk packets etc.
Additional CEO Abhay Kumar Nayak, Information and Public Relations Director Laxmidhar Mohanty, Additional Director Niranjan Sethi and senior officers from various departments and corporate sector were present, among others.