The district magistrate Harbans Singh Chugh who is also district election officer has directed all the returning officers manning elections to make ample arrangements to facilitate the ‘Divyangs’ (disabled) voters to reach the booths to cast votes while presiding over a meeting held in the city on Friday.
Besides, the administration has sought detailed information of the disabled. As per the statistics, there are 628 visually impaired persons in the district with the maximum-104- from Bhagwanpur area.
The administration is now busy collecting number of the disabled from other categories.
DM stressed that every booth must have a voter assistance centre endowed with sufficient arrangements to bring the disabled voters. He directed the chief medical officer to make available ambulance in case of exigency in each of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies.
He also directed the officials concerned to help the voters change their names and addresses while keeping the required forms at all the Anganwadi centres, booths and PDS shops.
ADM finance lalit Narayan Mishra, additional district magistrate Abhishek Tripathi, joint magistrate Roorkee Mayur Dixit, SDM Haridwar Maneesh Kumar and SDM Bhagwanpur Anil Gabrayal aside from the returning officers were present at the meeting.