Election Commission of India observer to monitor SVEEP (Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation) activities in Coimbatore will be in the city from April 8 to 14.
The observer, Suba Gupta, will visit areas across the district to see if the district administration had carried out voter awareness programmes under SVEEP and whether they have had any impact on the voters, said a source.
He would also check if the administration had taken steps to enrol youngsters as voters in the revision that was under way.
To facilitate enrolment of eligible persons and to provide plastic cards to voters, the administration would launch a mobile office that would go around the 10 Assembly constituencies. People in the mobile office would have computers and internet connection to meet people’s/voter’s requirements.
The source also said that the administration had planned to engage students to video record the polling in the 278 vulnerable and critical booths. It had talked to a few colleges and was in the process of finalising the students. It would require more than 500 students at two persons a booth for the 278 polling stations. The administration would also consider transporting elderly people to the polling booths, if necessary.
Udhagamandalam
Meanwhile, officials in-charge of monitoring poll violations have registered 246 cases. The officials had also seized Rs. 1.40 lakh as unaccounted cash from R. Subramanian at the Malukkuparai check post in the Valparai Assembly constituency limits. The seizure takes the total cash seized to Rs. 42.59 lakh.
Of it, the administration had returned Rs. 18.80 lakh after the persons had furnished documents.
In The Nilgiris, District Election Officer and Collector P. Shankar created awareness on the importance of voting among voters in the Tantea estate in Tiger Hill and also in Upathalai village. A release said that he distributed handbills containing voter awareness messages and at the Coonoor bus stand inspected the electronic screen that displayed voter awareness videos.
The observer, Suba Gupta, will visit areas across the district to see if the district administration had carried out voter awareness programmes under SVEEP and whether they have had any impact on the voters, said a source.
He would also check if the administration had taken steps to enrol youngsters as voters in the revision that was under way.
To facilitate enrolment of eligible persons and to provide plastic cards to voters, the administration would launch a mobile office that would go around the 10 Assembly constituencies. People in the mobile office would have computers and internet connection to meet people’s/voter’s requirements.
The source also said that the administration had planned to engage students to video record the polling in the 278 vulnerable and critical booths. It had talked to a few colleges and was in the process of finalising the students. It would require more than 500 students at two persons a booth for the 278 polling stations. The administration would also consider transporting elderly people to the polling booths, if necessary.
Udhagamandalam
Meanwhile, officials in-charge of monitoring poll violations have registered 246 cases. The officials had also seized Rs. 1.40 lakh as unaccounted cash from R. Subramanian at the Malukkuparai check post in the Valparai Assembly constituency limits. The seizure takes the total cash seized to Rs. 42.59 lakh.
Of it, the administration had returned Rs. 18.80 lakh after the persons had furnished documents.
In The Nilgiris, District Election Officer and Collector P. Shankar created awareness on the importance of voting among voters in the Tantea estate in Tiger Hill and also in Upathalai village. A release said that he distributed handbills containing voter awareness messages and at the Coonoor bus stand inspected the electronic screen that displayed voter awareness videos.