Hoshiarpur - District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Komal Mittal said that in view of the Lok Sabha elections 2024, awareness is being spread about voting in all the assembly constituencies of the district under continuous sweep activities. It aims to achieve the target of more than 70 percent voting and increase the vote percentage.
He was addressing the voter awareness program under the sweep fair at SD College Hoshiarpur today. Meanwhile, SDM-cum-Assistant Returning Officer Preetinder Singh Bains and District Sweep Nodal Officer Preet Kohli were also present with him. Meanwhile, a joint workshop of Campus Ambassadors and Campus Nodal Sweep Officers of Vidhan Sabha Constituencies Garhshankar, Chabewal, Hoshiarpur and Shamchurasi was also held in the college. The District Election Officer appreciated the vote awareness activities being conducted in the college by Hema Sharma, Chairperson of the College Management Committee, and said that through sweep activities, people, youth and especially students are being given detailed information about their right to vote so that They should not be deprived of using their valuable vote.
He said that vote is very important for a strong democracy and every vote has its importance and every eligible person must cast his vote on the polling day. Meanwhile, he appreciated the poster making, slogan writing, mehndi and other competitions conducted in the college regarding vote awareness and congratulated the college principal Prashant Sethi and the students and said that such competitions increase the knowledge of the students. Development and people's right to vote play an important role.
Appealing to those students to be a part of the election process by using their vote, EVM. Also asked to make people aware about the machines. He said that 100 percent VVPAT machines will be used in the Lok Sabha elections. He said that any complaint related to the election can be given on the helpline number 1950, while the Election Commission has launched the C-Vigil mobile application and through this also a person can complain about the violation of the ideal election code. Which can be solved in 100 minutes. Komal Mittal said that students who have reached the age of 18 can cast their vote by filling Form No. 6 or online. In the program, Trade Hall Carnival was organized by PG Department of Commerce, in which students set up stalls related to food items, games, nail art etc.
Meanwhile, the team of Municipal Corporation Hoshiarpur, which included Meena Kumari, Jaswinder Kaur and Jyoti Kalia, made the students aware of cleanliness by setting up a stall of organic fertilizer made from waste. Along with this, the students made everyone aware about voting through cultural activities including street play, giddha, mimicry, dance and songs. On this occasion, College Management Committee Secretary Gopal Sharma, Joint Secretary Tilak Raj Sharma, Treasurer National Awardee Pramod Sharma, Principal Prashant Sethi, Rakesh Kumar, Sandeep Sood, Ankur Sharma, Inderjit Singh, Rekha Rani, Maneka Bhatti, Election Kanugo Harpreet Kaur, Narendra Singh, Sanjeev Arora, Harpreet Kaur, Harshinder Pal, Harish, Rajneesh Gulyani, Neeraj Dhiman, Sweep Nodal Officer of the college Prof. Neha, SD Collegiate Pandit Amrit Anand Memorial Senior Secondary School Principal Dr. Radhika Ratan, Prof. Saurabh Thakur and the entire college. Staff were present.