Friday , November 15 2024

Volunteers should ensure participation in the festival of democracy: Ravi Kumar

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Ranchi, 29 October (Hindustan Reporter). Chief Electoral Officer K. Ravi Kumar appreciated the work of all the volunteers who helped in the Lok Sabha. He said that all the volunteers selected for the voting day should ensure their participation in the festival of democracy. He was addressing lakhs of volunteers from schools through online medium during the training of what to do and what not to do today from Nirvachan Sadan to assist the voters on the day of polling.

Addressing the students, Kumar said that through this training, point-wise training has been given regarding your participation in voting. Besides, all the training material related to this has been made available to your teachers, so that in case of any doubt, they can get information from their teachers while on duty.

Assistant Chief Electoral Officer Dev Das Dutta explained the guidelines related to the work of volunteers to all the students through PPT, which mainly included assistance to the disabled and elderly people at the polling booth, precautions to be taken in helping them with wheelchairs, rules for voting. The work related to volunteers on the polling day like availability of voter slip or given token of voters standing in the queue, queue management system, voting under chain system etc. were explained point wise.

On this occasion, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Neha Arora along with officials of the school education department of all the districts, teachers and lakhs of students in all the schools of the state were present through online medium.