Chief Electoral Officer VL Kantha Rao has instructed the SVEEP Partner Departments that the role of SVEEP partners is important to increase voting percentage in Vidhan Sabha General Election-2018. Conduct activities for wide publicity to ensure more than 80 per cent voting in the election and put up flex, banners and posters in the institutions and make appeal for voting besides video and jingles. Voter awareness platform should be formed at all the departments headed by the Head of the office and ensure that all the officers and employees must have voter ID cards. EVM and VVPAT should be demonstrated in offices and SVEEP partners must conduct publicity to spread awareness towards voting among their consumers, beneficiaries and common people.
Rao told the nodal officers of the banks and post offices that posters and banners with appeal for voting should be put up in all the banks and post offices and appeal for voting should be displayed on the electronic windows of all the ATM machines. Banners and posters in connection to the appeal for voting should be put up on the petrol pumps.
Video message should be relayed at airports, railway stations, in intercity buses and inter-state buses and by swachhta vehicles of municipal corporations. Along with this, make appeal for voting by putting up banners and flex and tickets too. They should send a report to the Nodal Officer of SVEEP every week mandatorily by maintaining record of all the above said activities, he added.
The Commissioner Public Relations P Narhari while informing about the works being carried out by the Public Relations Department said that 3400 flex with information on EVM and VVPAT and appeal for voting on November 28 have been put up in all the 230 assembly constituencies.
Voting related flex have been put up for common man in the district election offices and divisional commissioners offices. Wall painting has been done at 1.30 lakh sites to generate voting awareness. Over 200 press notes, advertisements on 16 channels, appeal for voting in 267 cinema halls and voting related videos have been issued.
Election related 22 videos have already been uploaded on YouTube. Apart from this, voting related flex, banners, posters, jingles, videos and election related slogans are also being made available to the departments. During the meeting, Rao directed the Scouts and Guides, NCC, Red Cross, Social Justice Department and Women and Child Development to ensure arrangement of volunteers for handicapped persons during the voting. They will work as Divyang Mitra to bring handicapped persons from home, to help them in casting votes and to escort them back to their homes. He further said that they should appoint volunteers at booth level by establishing coordination with collectors in districts.
The Joint Electoral Officer Vikas Narwal gave instructions in connection to the activities of SVEEP to the nodal officers of the departments. Nodal officers of 33 departments as SVEEP partners were present on the occasion.