Voter awareness activities would be carried out in the district throughout the year. An annual calendar has been released for the district under the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme. The activities to be undertaken round the year under the guidance of the Collector OP Choudhary will include awareness programmes on special occasions. Under the SVEEP plan, the voters will be informed about importance of vote, process of addition and removal of names from the voter list, information about updating the voter list which is carried out by the District Election Office throughout the year.
The officials said that cultural prgrammes including dance, songs, rallies etc will be organized in the rural as well as urban areas on the occasion of International Women’s’ Day on March 8. Voter awareness will be part of these events. The Panchayat and Rural Development Department will organise programmes under SVEEP in gram sabhas from April 14-22. Similarly the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department will organise departmental camps in the second and third week of April under SVEEP.
In May, the labour Department will organise awareness programmes in factories and industrial units under SVEEP. Similarly, the Higher Education Department will organise awareness programmes on the occasion of Environment Day in June and the school education department will organize a programme for service voters on July 5. A number of programmes will be organised from August 16-26 by the Education Department on Voter Sensitization. The voter awareness programmes will be organised in all educational organisations on the occasion of Teachers’ Day on September 5 and on the occasion of Barrister Thakur Chedilal Mahotsava.
Similar programmes will be organised on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 and Children’s’ Day on November 14 and on the occasion of International Day of People with Disability on December 3.