New Delhi, April 11: Ajanta Pokhrel, 32 and visually impaired, described her vote-casting experience on Thursday here as "different". With polling stations equipped with wheelchairs, Braille sheets and designated volunteers for assistance, Delhi's differently-abled community hailed the provisions made by the Election Commission as a pleasant one.
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Electronic Voting Machines were demonstrated to blind persons at the Government School for the Blind near the bridge here on Friday.
Blind persons in large numbers came and took part in the demonstration and learnt how to vote.
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Special arrangements have been made by Delhi Election Commission to provide better accessibility to the differently-abled voters at polling booths across the city, when the national capital goes to Lok Sabha polls on April 10.
The Commission has also decided to hold officials, who are in-charge of setting up polling stations, accountable for any inconvenience faced by such voters.
Employees of government and private establishments, daily wage workers and contract workers will get a paid holiday on April 10, due to the Lok Sabha elections being held in the city, the Delhi government said on Monday.
“As per the provision of Section 135 B (i) of the Representation of People (RP) Act, every person employed in any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment and entitled to vote, shall be granted a holiday on April 10,” a government official said.
Dummy ballot sheets in Braille will be used at polling booths in Ganjam, Khurda, and Cuttack districts to facilitate visually-impaired voters to cast their votes without any attendant. Such a measure is being introduced for the first time.
lection Commission (EC) in Odisha, in its initiative to encourage physically handicapped people to vote in large numbers, has roped in national blind cricket team captain Md Jafar Iqbal as its 'icon'.
"The celebrity blind cricketer would encourage blind voters to exercise their franchise," an official at the Cuttack District Election Office said here, adding that special ballot papers had been prepared for this purpose.
The icon would also participate in workshops where he would interact with the blind voters who are not familiar with Braille, the official said.
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