Chief Secretary Basant Pratap Singh will administer voters’ day oath to citizens at School of Excellence Subhash School on National Voters Day on January 25. Programmes will be held in all districts. National Voters Day is being observed in Madhya Pradesh for the eighth time.
National Voters Day will be observed in Madhya Pradesh in all districts including Bhopal on January 25. Citizens will be administered oath on Voters Day in the programme to be organised in the districts.
State-level ceremony will be held in Subhash School of Excellence of Bhopal from 11 a.m. Chief Secretary BP Singh will be the chief guest at the ceremony.
Chief Electoral Officer Saleena Singh and other special guests will be present on the occasion. The Chief Secretary will also inaugurate an exhibition related to the election process in India.
This year’s theme of voters’ day is ‘Sulabh-Nirvachan’. Chief Secretary will present voter IDs to new voters after pinning a badge of ‘Proud of being a voter’ on them. A film on voters’ day will be screened during the programme.
Those who will be awarded for best performance during elections in 2017 include District Collector Katni Vishesh Gadhpale besides in the Deputy District Electoral Officer category, Alok Kumar Shrivastava of Chhindwada, Meena Meshram of Balaghat and Kameshwar Choube of Seoni district, in the District Election Observer category Sudhir Kohle of Chhindwada, DK Patle of Balaghat, Manoj Kumar Raj of Damoh, in the category of Electoral Registration Officer Deepak Kumar of Padhurna in Chhindwada district, Govind Dubey of Baihar of Balaghat district and Anjali Shah of Biaora of Rajgarh district.
Six BlOs will be awarded for adding names of maximum number of voters in the 18-19 age group in the revision programme.
As many as 25 officers-employees posted in the CEO office will also be awarded for active participation and outstanding performance in electoral work during year 2017.