Training given to officers and employees for home voting

Dhamtari, April 8 (HS). Under the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, on the instructions of Collector and District Election Officer Ms. Namrata Gandhi, on April 8, in the District Panchayat Assembly Hall, voters above 85 years of age and with more than 40 percent disability. To provide the facility of home voting, training was given to Micro Observer, Presiding Officer, Polling Officer Number-1.

During this, importance of postal vote, postal vote eligibility, process, postal vote convenience centre, pre-voting process at convenience centre, voting at postal vote convenience centre, postal vote authentication, closure of convenience center voting, absentee voters etc. were explained.

It was also told in the training that the Commission has given the right to postal vote by giving the status of absentee voter to special category voters. Essential service voters will have to vote at the convenience centers only, but for senior citizen (85 years of age and above) voters, disabled voters (with more than 40 percent disability) and absentee voters, the Commission has decided to conduct door-to-door voting. . Voters of these categories get themselves registered by applying in Form 12-D. A team of polling officers along with local BLOs will visit the homes of these voters under police protection and in the knowledge of the candidates and in the presence of their representatives. SDM Dhamtari Dr. Vibhor Aggarwal and concerned officers were present in the training.