At least 15,831 voters’ slips are being prepared in the Braille script for visually impaired voters in Jharkhand. Besides, Dummy Ballet Sheet and Voters Guide are also being printed in Braille for visually impaired voters in all the districts, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Manish Ranjan said on Saturday.

“These dummy ballet sheets will be made available in every polling station,” he said.

The visually impaired voters coming to the polling station will be informed about the process of voting through this dummy ballet sheet, so they can use their vote well.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that there are over 1.3 billion visually impaired people, of which more than 36 million are blind. Home to the world’s second largest population, blindness is no stranger to India. According to a report by Centre for Sight, one of every three blind people is an Indian. The country is home to over 30 per cent of the world’s blind population—an estimated 12 million.

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