EC to sign pact with education ministry to spread voter awareness in schools
He appealed to influencers from all walks of life including the media to promote the importance of voting and in pushing up the voter turnout in forthcoming elections
The Election Commission of India (ECI) will ink a memorandum of understanding with the education ministry to spread awareness about voting rights in schools, chief election commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said on Thursday.
He appealed to influencers from all walks of life including the media to promote the importance of voting and in pushing up the voter turnout in forthcoming elections.
Election commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey said that it has always been the endeavour of the ECI to experiment with new initiatives to enhance voter turnout at elections. “Rajkummar Rao is an apt choice for a national icon who has acted in a movie based on conducting elections in tough and challenging conditions,” he said.
Election commissioner Arun Goel while highlighting the issue of urban and youth apathy towards elections said that collaboration with the education ministry would be “fruitful in bringing about behavioural and attitudinal change and nudging urban youth to actively participate in the elections”.
