Voluntary organisations should play role in spreading awareness about voting among the masses. The voluntary organisations indulged in social works have their impact on people and they should use their hold to aware and inspire the electorate to exercise their franchise, said additional collector and deputy district returning officer (DDRO) Akshay Singh while having discussions with the representatives of the voluntary organisations in a meeting here on Tuesday at the meeting hall of collectorate.
The meeting was also attended by assistant collector Surbhi Sinha, DRCM RS Vishwakarma, District Programme Officer women and child development Naqi Jahan Qureshi besides large number of representatives of voluntary organizations working in the district.
Earlier, in the beginning of the meeting DDRO Singh made a slide presentation to inform about the essential things about Election Commissions Systematic Voters’ Education And Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme. Comprehensive efforts should be made to ensure that everybody’s name must be included in the electoral rolls and every voter should vote and the voluntary organizations could play important role in this, he added.
Singh also informed the representatives of the voluntary organizations about the procedure for correction in the voter cards and making of new voters cards.
He said that it is observed that women voters comes out in lesser number to cast their vote in comparison to men hence efforts should be made and they should be inspired to vote so that the voting percentage of women could be raised. Efforts should be made for cent percent voting, he added.