Wednesday, January 23, 2019

National Voters Day on January 25

CHANDIGARH, JAN 23 
 The 9th State Level Program will be organized on National Voters Day on January 25 in Ambala City, where Haryana Chief Secretary, Mr D.S. Dhesi will be the Chief Guest. On the occasion, Toll-Free number 1950 will be launched and vans for the demonstration and awareness of Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) will be flagged off.
     While giving this information today, Chief Election Officer, Haryana, Mr Rajiv Ranjan said that the State-Level programme would be held in Ambala while in rest all districts the district level programme would be held on the occasion of National Voters Day.
     He said that EVM or VVPAT Demonstration and Awareness Van, being sent to all the districts, would provide information about the working of these machines in every city, every village and every neighbourhood.
     On January 25, National Voters Day would be celebrated at all the booths along with district headquarters by organizing programmes. On the occasion, those who would show good performance in quiz contest organised at state and district level would be honoured. On the day, the staff working in all departments would be administered  voters' oath, he added.
     He said that the main aim of celebrating National Voters Day is to generate awareness among the youth who attained the age of 18 years, about the importance of the vote, so that they apply to make their voters' card to cast their vote. In a democratic set up, even a single vote matters a lot, so one must make their voters card to cast their vote.
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