view of the Lok Sabha General Elections, 2024, today, Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand, K Ravi Kumar, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Sandeep Singh and Additional Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Neha Arora reviewed the preparations for the elections in their respective districts with all the District Election Officers through video conferencing.
He said that he himself is involved in booth level voter awareness groups and their respective BLOs in their respective districts. Day-to-day monitoring of the efforts being made for voter awareness should be done by assigning the responsibility to a block level official for close coordination with the Election Commission. With this, it will be easier to identify voters above 85 years of age, disabled people and voters who are unable to reach polling stations and make preparations in advance to facilitate their exercise of their franchise.
He directed to make advance arrangements for vehicles to each polling station for such voters. Medical facilities are to be made available for all polling stations. Therefore, make a clear physical assessment of the health facilities available at every level in every district, so that they can be utilized properly on time. He especially stressed the need to keep available and mobile ambulances ready for use.
The Chief Electoral Officer, while nominating separate officers for the urban areas, directed that effective efforts should be made to remove all possible apathy of the voters by organizing meetings of voter awareness groups in coordination with the BLOs.
He directed to finalize the names of the selected volunteers by holding a meeting with the in-charges of NCC/NSS/Scouts and Guides to prepare the database of volunteers to be deployed at the polling stations to facilitate easy voting. He said that all polling station awareness groups in rural and urban areas should be activated, so that voting can become easier. He directed to make necessary efforts for voter awareness by holding meetings with voter awareness groups, resident welfare associations and non-political citizen groups in urban areas. He held a meeting with the campus ambassadors of all educational institutions and directed them to make necessary efforts to make young voters aware about the exercise of their franchise.
He said that by following the instructions of the Election Commission of India, leave no stone unturned in taking preventive action against those who create disruption in any way in following the Model Code of Conduct for conducting fair and fear-free elections.
He directed the concerned officials of all the districts to do real time entry on the app and portal run by the Election Commission of India, so that peaceful, clean, fair and fear-free elections can be conducted. In the said review meeting, instructions were given to execute the work as per the calendar on the subjects like postal ballot, vehicle management, availability of minimum necessary facilities at polling stations, management of personnel for elections etc.