DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

To increase voter turnout, consecutive Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) activities are being organized in Yamunanagar. Under the Voter Awareness Campaign, various educational institutions are motivating the voters to cast their votes in the upcoming festival of democracy by organising awareness rallies, painting, rangoli, debates, and competitions.

Social media is also being used to encourage voters to cast their votes so that there is an effective increase in the voter turnout in the district. For these SVEEP activities, information about the importance of their votes and the festival of democracy is being provided to each voter, reaching them individually.

Sharing more details, Deputy Commissioner cum District Election Officer, Yamunanagar, Captain Manoj Kumar said that as per the directions of the Election Commission of India, SVEEP activities a successfully organized in the Yamunanagar, Jagadhri, and Sadhaura Assembly constituencies falling under the Ambala Lok Sabha constituency, as well as in the Radaur Assembly constituency falling under the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency, to increase the voter turnout in the Lok Sabha general elections.

He informed that various types of activities are being continuously organized by the district election office, district administration, and other departments to educate voters and increase the voter turnout compared to the previous elections. Messages of voter awareness are being conveyed through various activities to educate and inspire voters from children to the elderly, shared Captain Manoj Kumar.

He said that besides SVEEP activities, urban and rural voters are being made aware through door-to-door contacts by various departments, by placing voter awareness propaganda material on roadways buses, conducting announcements, administering voter awareness oaths, lectures, signature campaigns, human chains, and rangoli in both urban and

rural areas.
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