State Election Commissioner Basant Pratap Singh has directed the Collector and District Election Officers to prepare a well-planned action plan of the voter awareness campaign for Panchayat and Urban Bodies Election-2022 and ensure its implementation. He told to send information about the activities related to voter awareness campaign to the Commission. The detailed action plan has been sent by the Commission to all the districts. He told to prepare a district level action plan on this basis. Singh has said that it is necessary to increase the percentage of voting through publicity, to understand the importance of voting and to motivate the voters to vote.
The campaign is being launched to inform the voters about the process of voting, to encourage women and young voters to vote, to increase the percentage of voting at the polling stations where the percentage of voting has been low in the last election, establishment of voter assistance centers at the ward or polling station level, to inform about the security arrangements being made by the administration in sensitive polling stations, to make voters aware of the value of voting and the role of voters in democracy, to make people aware about the process of easy voting by pregnant women, senior citizens and differently-abled voters and the innovations made by the Commission and the amendments made in the rules and instructions.