STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Voter facilitation centre has been inaugurated at Wave Mall Jammu to facilitate eligible persons to enroll themselves as voter as well as to promoting awareness for exercising voting rights.
The facilitation centre was inaugurated by the District Election Officer Ajeet Kumar Sahu at Wave Mall Jammu on Saturday which is 50th voter facilitation centre made functional till date in District Jammu.
It is to mention that voter facilitation centre provide solution for on spot registration as well as checking of names in the voter list which has facility for online access to election data base . Any person can check if their name is in voter list or not as well as also can see his polling station and name of his BLO. These centres also provide facility for online registration as well as manual registration for which sufficient number of Form 6 is available at these centres. These centres have been established as SVEEP activity under the banner of Wake Up Jammu. The details of these 50 centres are as Jammu West 5 centres, Marh Constituency 3 centres, Akhnoor Constituency 10 centres, Raipur Domana Constituency 5 centres, R.S.Pura Constituency 4 centres, Chamb Constituency 5 centres, Bishnah Constituency 7 centres, Suchetgarh Constituency 4 centres, Jammu East 4 centres and Gandhi Nagar 4 centres.
Voter facilitation centres at Wave Mall has been opened for targeting urban women for enrolment as well as voting who hesitate in visiting the polling station for casting their votes. As per data available with regard to parliamentary elections 2014 nearly 80% of rural women voters have participated in the elections but only 60 % urban women voters have reached to the polling stations to cast their vote. This trend does not reflect encouraging picture as urban women are more educated and aware. Hence malls and cinema halls are being targeted by the DEO to approach the urban women voters and motivate them to exercise their rights to vote.
