JAMMU, JANUARY 25:- The 7th National Voters Day with the theme “Empowering young and Future Voters" was celebrated across the Jammu Division.
AT RAJOURI the main function was chaired by Advisory Board for the Development of Pahari Speaking People Kuldeep Raj Gupta.
District Election Officer Shabir Ahmed Bhat, senior officers of various departments, representatives of various political parties and prominent citizens were present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, Vice chairman appealed the people to participate in the electoral process, by enrolling themselves and exercise their franchise to strengthen the democratic system.
District Election Officer administered National Voters Day pledge to the participants and distributed EPICs among the new enrolled voters
Similar functions were held at all the Subdivisions; tehsil and Booth level where AERO administered pledge and distributed EPICs among the newly enrolled voters.
AT KISHTWAR the main function was held at Government Boys Higher Secondary School where Additional Deputy Commissioner Kishori Lal distributed EPICs among the new voters and asked the participants to take part in democratic process in free and fair manner. He also awarded BLOs for their best performances in field.
Chief Education Officer, A H Fani, District Youth Services and sports officer Diwan Thakur, DSWO Phulail Singh, Tehsildar Irshad Butt, NT Election cell besides other officers were present on the occasion .
AT DODA District Election officer Doda Mr Bhupinder Kumar distributed EPICs among the first time registered voters .
While highlighting the significance of the day the DEO said that the day is observed to encourage young voters , who have reached the age of 18 to participate in the electoral process, by enrolling or registering themselves in electoral rolls and to exercise their franchise.
Later prizes were distributed among the winners of Painting competition organised on the said theme by Election cell Doda.
Momin Islahi of Shaheen Public HSS was awarded 1st prize whereas Iqra Balwan and Junaid bagged 2nd and 3rd prize respectively.
Besides BLOs were felicitated for carrying out purification of the electoral rolls.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Hanief Malik, CPO Yoginder Katoch, CEO Mohd Ashraf Rather, Tehsildar Nasir Ali, DRCS Anoop Kumar besides other district officers were present on the occasion.
AT UDHAMPUR various awareness programmes were organized by the District Election office under the theme “Empowering Young and Future Voters” all over the district.
During a function held at Udhampur District Election Officer Niraj Kumar said that the main objective of celebrating this day is to strengthen our democratic system by creating awareness among the young voters about the importance of their vote and hence involving their greater participation in the whole electoral system. Stressing on the enrollment and registration of all the marginal voters of the district, the DEO asked the students present in the programme to generate awareness among all the eligible voters, motivating them to cast their votes.
A large number of students participated in various cultural programmes like group songs, rangoli competition, group dances, skits etc., which highlighted the importance of the day.
DEO felicitated various officers for their excellent performance in the election related activities.
Chief Planning Officer , Rakesh Jamwal, ACR Subhash Chander Dogra, CMO Dr. Chander Prakash, CEO Bishan Singh, DSWO Rachna Sharma , Principals of various schools, teachers and a large number of students were present on the occasion.
A debate competition was also organized at Ramnagar in which students of various educational institutions participated and expressed their views on the importance of the day.
AT SAMBA the main function was held at Bhargava Degree College where the District Election Officer Sheetal Nanda administered National Voters Day Pledge to the participants and distributed EPIC’s among the new voters .
DDC while speaking on the occasion impressed upon the voters to ensure greater participation in the elections for strengthening the democracy in the country.
DDC also felicitated booth level officers Qasim Ali, Ramesh Kumar,Sohanu Kumar and Vijay kumar ,senior voters of the district, Shiv Ram aged 98 years and Madan Mohan aged 88 .Prizes were also distributed among Trinayni Manyal , Chetan Sharma and Ankita Sharma who stood first , second and third in the Slogan writing competition.
Earlier a special enrollment drive was organised on 22nd January at all the polling booths of the district while ‘Interactive School Engagements sessions were also organized in various schools.
AT REASI District Election Officer Ravinder Kumar administered the National Voters Day pledge and distributed EPIC’s among the new voters .
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Kumar called upon the participants to spread awareness and educate the masses on the value and meaning of electoral enrolment and its role in strengthening the democracy. .
Additional Deputy Commissioner Babu Ram, ACR Abdul Satar, Deputy District Election Officer Surjeet Singh, officers of various other departments, BLOs, representative of political parties, students and local people were present on the occasion.
Later, Deputy Commissioner also visited Government Degree College, Girl Higher Secondary School and some other institutions to inspect various events and activities including training sessions, paintings, mock poll drills held to mark the celebration of National Voter Day.
Similar events were held in various offices and educational institutions in Katra, Pouni, Arnas, Mahore, Dharmari, Chassana and even remotest areas.
AT KATHUA also the 7th National Voters Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm across the district .The main function was organized at Government Degree College where Deputy Commissioner Kathua Ramesh Kumar was the chief guest. ADC Dr Bharat Bhushan and SSP Pawan Parihar were also present on the occasion.
While addressing the gathering Deputy Commissioner Kathua Ramesh Kumar greeted people on the Voters Day. He laid thrust upon the need to make fair use of right to franchise. He said that the essence of celebrating National Voters Day is to encourage the eligible Voters to get themselves registered and cast their vote without any bias.
He further said that online updation of voter card entries are also possible and if any problem arises, the same can be brought into the notice of concerned BLO.
On the occasion DC distributed EPIC’s among the newly enrolled voters besides administering pledge to the participants.
Similarly programmes were organized at all the tehsil headquarters in the districts.
AT POONCH the main function was held at Government Degree College which was attended by the District Election Officer, Mohammad Harun Malik, Assistant Commissioner Revenue Ashraf Chowdhury, ACD .Mohammad. Zabir Hussain Shah,ARTO Poonch Sh Jehangir Khan, besides other officers , prominent citizens and students.
Speaking on the occasion, the District Election Officer highlighted the importance of NVD celebrations to increase enrollment of voters, especially the new voters and to spread awareness among people.
Programmes were also organized at Tehsil, Niabat, village ,panchayat and even at Polling Booth level.
AT RAMBAN the main function was organised by the District administration at Maitra
During the programme new voters were handed over their new Voter Identity Cards by the chief guest, Additional Deputy Commissioner(ADC),Angrez Singh Rana.
Meanwhile, NVD was also celebrated at Batote under the chairmanship of Tehsildar,Srinath Suman wherein as many as 800 new voters were given their new Voter Identity Cards .
On the occasion, the participants were also educated on the Cashless Transaction by the Managers of State Bank of India, J&K Bank Ltd and Punjab & Sind Bank,Batote.
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