Chief Electoral Officer Smt. Reena Babasaheb Kangale gave directions to the Social Welfare Department and the Directorate of Public Education to facilitate voting for the disabled – Lok Shakti.in

The assembly of the State Steering Committee on Accessible Elections, constituted for simple voting for differently-abled voters, was held underneath the chairmanship of Chief Electoral Officer of Chhattisgarh, Smt. Reena Babasaheb Kangale. In the assembly, he directed the Social Welfare Department and the Directorate of Public Education to facilitate voting for disabled voters. Additional Chief Electoral Officer Mrs. Shikha Rajput Tiwari, Director of Social Welfare Department Mr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma, Joint Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Ok.R. Singh, Additional Director of Directorate of Public Instruction Shri J.P. Rath and Deputy Director Mr. S.N. Panda was additionally current within the assembly.

Chief Electoral Officer Smt. Kangale knowledgeable the members current within the assembly in regards to the proceedings of the assembly of the National Advisory Committee on Accessible Elections organized by the Election Commission of India on November 24 in New Delhi and the suggestions of the Commission. Gave. He sought strategies from the members of the State Level Steering Committee to chalk out an motion plan for the simple voting of voters with disabilities (PwDs) within the upcoming meeting elections-2023 in Chhattisgarh.

Smt. Kangale directed the officers of Social Welfare Department and Directorate of Public Education to supply important primary amenities on the polling cubicles within the upcoming elections for easy voting. He requested to prepare a particular camp in collaboration with the Health and Family Welfare Department to supply medical certificates of incapacity to the recognized disabled voters. He directed to prepare coaching program on the district degree to mark polling center-wise of differently-abled voters and get their names entered within the server in order that the names of differently-abled voters could be entered within the voter record in an error-free method.

In the assembly, the Chief Electoral Officer requested the Social Welfare Department to prepare particular camps on the district degree for the identification of disabled voters in addition to third gender residents above 18 years of age and registration within the voter record. He requested to take cooperation of non-governmental and civil-social organizations (NGOs/CSOs) and volunteers working for the welfare of the third gender group on this work. He directed to ship voice messages to the visually impaired voters to present mandatory data associated to voting, receive their cell numbers on the time of identification of every visually impaired voters and share them with the Chief Electoral Officer’s workplace. Seeing the issue of communication between deaf-mute disabled voters and polling personnel, he requested to arrange a brief movie and share it with the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer in order that it may be proven to the members of the polling social gathering and the safety personnel deployed on the polling stations to coach them. .

Smt. Kangale requested to take cooperation of non-governmental and civil-social organizations working for his or her welfare to facilitate straightforward voting of disabled voters. He instructed the Director of the Social Welfare Department to arrange a listing of such establishments on the district degree. He instructed Joint Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Ok.R. Singh to prepare divisional degree workshop with these establishments. The Chief Electoral Officer knowledgeable within the assembly that as per the directions of the Election Commission of India, the web sites of all of the District Election Officers should be made PwDs pleasant. In this regard, directions have already been issued to all of the districts. He directed the Social Welfare Department to examine the web sites of all district election officers and difficulty certificates. He directed the Joint Chief Electoral Officer to take mandatory motion relating to giving particular awards to the officers-employees doing good work in the direction of guaranteeing easy voting on National Voters’ Day.

Chief Electoral Officer Smt. Kangale instructed the officers of Directorate of Public Education to conduct third social gathering audit within the steering committee assembly to mark the precise availability of important infrastructure amenities ensured on the polling stations. He requested to prepare particular camps on the college degree to arrange the record of scholars above 17 years of age learning within the colleges and to use upfront for registration within the voter record. He additionally gave directions for particular coaching of chosen college students of NSS and NCC for the cooperation of differently-abled voters and senior voters at polling cubicles.

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