Uttarakhand: Special plan made for handicapped voters, now these facilities will be available at polling booth
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To provide easy and accessible voting facilities to the disabled voters in the state, a meeting of the State Steering Committee on Accessible Elections was held in the Secretariat on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Electoral Officer Dr BVRC Purushottam. In the meeting, various aspects related to the convenience of the disabled were discussed seriously.
Disabled voters will get these facilities
The objective of the meeting was to ensure that in the upcoming elections, all the disabled voters can be provided the minimum facilities set by the Commission. Chief Electoral Officer Dr Purushottam directed that there should be proper arrangements for ramp, wheelchair, toilet, drinking water, shed and seating at every polling booth in the state.
He directed the Social Welfare Department to ensure that the disabled pensioners registered in the department are registered 100 percent in the PWD category in the voter list. For this, an updated list should be submitted to the Election Department every three months on the basis of 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October.
Special scheme made for Divyang voters, now these facilities will be available at polling booth
Special attention should be given to identification of Divyangs
The Chief Electoral Officer also said that special attention should be paid to identification of Divyangs during the special brief revision program. According to him, AMF facilities should be ensured. He also directed to mark District Sweep PWD icon in each district.
In the meeting, NIEPVD was entrusted with the task of preparing voter awareness material in Braille script. Additional Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Vijay Kumar Jogdande said that since the year 2018, committees have been formed at three levels in the state, district and assembly, which review the work through meetings from time to time.
