Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Nov 9: District administration organized special voter enrollment camps at 625 polling booths to cover left-out voters and provide an opportunity to eligible youth for inclusion in electoral rolls.
District Election Officer (Deputy Commissioner) Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Additional DC Prasanna Ramaswami (RO Kathua), Gurmukh Singh SDM Basohli, Suraj Parkash ACR, Rajiv Charak SDM Billawar, Anwar Bandey SDM Bani, Sohan Lal SDM Hiranagar,ARO Anshul Garg, Tehsildars and BDOs supervised the enrollment camps in various areas of 5 Assembly segments of Kathua, Bani, Basohli, Billawar and Hiranagar.
As per reports, 448 voters were enrolled in Bani, 974 in Basohli, 309 in Billawar, 622 in Kathua and 568 in Hiranagar Assembly segments. On the sidelines of these special enrolment camps, programmes were organized under SVEEP campaign “Matdaan Mahotsav” for greater electoral literacy and ethical and inducement-free voting.
EVM demonstration camps and electoral pledge were organized at these camps which were coordinated by 77 Zonal Officers and Sector Officers. More than 70,000 pamphlets and pledge letters were distributed among participants at various polling booth camps.