Pick and drop facility for PWD voters on voting day- DEO Sakshi Sawhney
To empower and facilitate the Persons with Disability (PWD) voters to participate maximum in these general elections, the administration would provide a pick and drop facility to them on June 1 when voting will take place in the state.
City Air News
Mar 21, 2024 06:53
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Ludhiana, March 21, 2024: To empower and facilitate the Persons with Disability (PWD) voters to participate maximum in these general elections, the administration would provide a pick and drop facility to them on June 1 when voting will take place in the state.
Reviewing the preparations of facilities for the PWD voters here, District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Sakshi Sawhney said that as per the directions of Election Commission of India, the decision has been taken to make the electoral process more accessible to the PWD voters and enhance their participation in this biggest festival of the democracy. She said that the district has 16650 PWD voters in all constituencies.
Sawhney said that administration would prepare an elaborate movement and facility mechanism for the PWD voters including sufficient number of vehicles in each assembly segment, ramps, wheel chairs, volunteers from NGOs and NCC, extra seating or resting points of them, and other facilities would be ensured at polling booths during polling day on June 1.
Exhorting them to avail this facility, District Election Officer said that the PWD voters could contact their respective Booth Level Officers (BLOs) following which the vehicles will be sent to their homes/places for pick and drop facility on the polling day. She added that the district administration is committed to ensuring wider participation of PWD voters in the democratic process and said that it would leave no stone unturned to facilitate the PWD voters so that they do not face any kind of trouble while casting their voters.
She said that PWD voters must come forward and exercise their right to the franchise which would send a strong message to the others that their vote matters too.
The meeting was also attended by ADC Amit Sareen, DSSO Varinder Singh Tiwana, DDF Ambar Bandopadhyay besides others.
