Date Baghpat, 14 April 2024 – District Magistrate (District Election Officer) Shri Jitendra Pratap Singh took a meeting regarding the basic facilities of the polling places in connection with the voting to be held on 26 April.
Special attention should be paid to the arrangements for basic facilities like electricity, water, ramp, furniture, toilet, shade, etc. at the polling place.
*Officials engaged in elections should recognize their powers as per the guidelines of the Commission*
*Signage boards should be installed to go to the booth*
District Magistrate/District Election Officer Jitendra Pratap Singh today in the Collectorate Auditorium, in view of the safe conduct of Lok Sabha General Elections 2024 in a free, fair, transparent, peaceful, fear-free and effective manner, announced three elections in the district for 11- Baghpat Lok Sabha constituency. The assembly covers Chhaprauli, Baraut and Baghpat, for which there are 979 polling places, on which voting will be held on 26 April 2024, in which 973029 voters of the district will enthusiastically participate in the great festival of democracy. He said that arrangements for basic facilities like electricity, water, ramp, furniture, toilet, shade, etc. should be taken care of to be provided to all the voters. He said that signage charts should also be installed at all the booths, based on the route chart, so that the people coming and going can get any information. There should be no inconvenience. There should be arrangements for lights, switches and phones at the booth. The District Election Officer directed that all the Sector Magistrate Zonals will give the verification report of the complete arrangements of all the polling places by 21st April. The District Election Officer also directed that no disabled voter should face any problem in reaching the booth. He said that there should be wheelchairs at such polling stations. Booth Mitras should be made at every polling station. The responsibility for this was given to the District School Inspector. The person who has an I card will wear a special NCC dress and will help the voters.
In order to conduct the Lok Sabha general elections safely in the district, a total of 106 Sector Magistrates have been appointed who should regularly visit and inspect their polling stations. Physically verify the arrangements for basic facilities like electricity, water, ramp, furniture, toilet, shade, etc. provided to the voters under AMF. If there is any problem at any booth, then the responsibility for the same lies with the concerned Sector Magistrate Assistant Returning Officer. Will happen. He said that till the completion of the election work, we will be fully responsible for maintaining peace and conducting free, fair, fear-free and transparent voting. Any kind of laxity and carelessness in this will not be forgivable.
On this occasion, Additional District Magistrate, Deputy District Election Officer Pankaj Verma, Additional District Magistrate Judicial Subhash Singh, Chief Development Officer Neeraj Kumar Srivastava, all SDM Block Development Officers, Executive Officers and related officers were present.
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Baghpat 12 April 2024 – Reaching the residence of District Magistrate/District Election Officer Jitendra Pratap Singh, BLO Aarti of Sisana booth and SDM Baghpat Avinash Tripathi gave the voter slip and voter guide.
Voter guide and voter slip will be delivered to every home on the initiative of the Election Commission of India.
After reaching the residence of District Magistrate/District Election Officer Jitendra Pratap Singh, BLO Aarti of Sisana booth and SDM Baghpat Avinash Tripathi gave the voter slip and voter guide. It may be noted that District Magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh is a registered voter of Baraut Assembly. According to the guidelines of the Election Commission of India, this time in the Lok Sabha General Election 2024, all the voters are to be provided Voter Information Slip and Voter Guide on which information about Sweep Baghpat App and other important voter empowerment programs will be mentioned for the convenience of the voters.
District Election Officer Jitendra Pratap Singh said that every voter should participate enthusiastically in the festival of democracy and pride of the country. There are a total of 979 polling booths in the district. There are 9,73,029 voters in Baghpat district, out of which 7,838 are senior citizens, 6,608 disabled, 16,946 youth voters, 4,43,687 female voters, 5,29,380 male voters. Voter information slips will be provided to all voters in which BLOs will ensure to deliver the information slips to the voters of their booth. Map of polling station, name and mobile number of BLO, details of alternative documents for voting and other important instructions will be mentioned on the voter information slip which will empower the voters and motivate them to participate in the voting process with confidence.
Along with voter information slip, voter guide will also be delivered to 1 lakh 94 thousand families of the district through BLO, which will be available in colored print. The guide will contain information about the process of voting with EVMs and convenience apps like Sweep Baghpat App, Saksham App, Voter Helpline App, Know Your Candidate App and C Vigil etc. The distribution of both the documents will take place from 9 days to 5 days before the polling date and the election office has made necessary preparations to provide the documents to all the voters. Voter Information Slip will be given to the registered voter or any adult member of his family after signing the register. These documents will be made available in Braille script for the disabled (blind).