Pune: Push to include differently abled voters in poll process

Pune | Friday | 8th February, 2019

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Housing societies and colleges would continue to cooperate, Mhaisekar said.He said the 1950 helpline service was active in all the five districts. Voters can dial the helpline number for any query. The booth-level officers (BLOs) have been asked to ensure a clean electoral roll by checking the names in their list and ensure that there are no duplicate names or names of the deceased. For this, proper mapping should be done,” he said.The divisional commissioner is also keen on ensuring that “marked voters” or key personalities from the division identified by each district have been assured of inclusion in the voters’ list.The chief electoral office published the updated voters’ list on January 31. PUNE: Deepak Mhaisekar, the Pune divisional commissioner, on Thursday directed all the election officers to ensure that no differently abled voter was left out from the polling process.He told them to check for such voters and ensure that their polling booth was on the ground floor.Addressing a meeting of representatives from all the five districts in the Pune division, Mhaisekar said booth-level officers should take special care to find out missing names of differently abled voters..