Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, South District election office organised an election awareness event titled “Accessible Elections and No voters to be left behind”.
Dr Ranbir Singh, CEO, said that Election Commission of India has repeatedly focused on enabling the voters with disabilities to exercise their right to vote.
"It has adopted several measures to ensure basic facilities at the polling stations making them conducive to voters with disabilities to cast their vote," quoted a press statement. "In this regard, district election office, South has been continuously organising events to generate awareness on the steps taken at the level of the district to make the upcoming 17th Lok Sabha Elections 2019, "truly accessible" in nature."
Some of the features of the event were demonstration of a model of an accessible polling booth. Voters got a hands on experience on the EVM-VVPATs at these mock poll stations. A facility for verification of their names on the electoral roll wal also present.
A Voter registration desk was set up at the venue. Launch of election literacy song and other awareness generating material was launched by the Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi
The event was attended by DC South Nidhi Srivastava DC East K Mahesh, D9Satinder Singh , District level PWD icon for District South A S Narayanan, General Secretary National Association for the Deaf, who shared thoughts on the theme of this year's election — "accessible elections".