Assembly Bye Election 2020 Assembly Constituencies 166 -Agar District SVEEP Plan - CEO Madhya ...

Assembly Bye Election 2020
Assembly Constituencies 166 -Agar
      District SVEEP Plan
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Objective

Situation Analysis                              Communication Plan
      •Electoral Roll Profile                         •Overall Approach
      •Identification of Gap in Participation         •Target Communication
      (Registration and Turnout)                      and outreach
      •Analyzing Gap                                  •EVM & VVPAT
                                                      Awareness
Strategy and Planning                                •Common Outreach
      •Common strategy for Voter Education &
                                                      Activities
      Awareness
      •Targeted Approach for Voter Education &
      Awareness                                  Monitoring Mechanism
      •SVEEP Structure                                •Responsibility
      •SVEEP Partner
      •Resources Mobilization
      •Accessible Election                                                    2

   Election commission of India has started SVEEP (Systematic Voter Education &
    Electoral Participation) initials Voters involved in electoral process
   Every vote count is desirable that “No voter should be left behind”.
   Registration of New voters.
   Making voters registration and modification responsiveness and convenient for every
    voters
   To ensure informed and inducement free voting.
   Overall increase in turnout by at least 10-20% over the last Vidhan sabha election.
   Maximizing voter turnout with zero gender gap, 100% special category voters casting
    their vote and no poll boycotts
   Awareness of EVM/VVPAT among all voters.
   Awareness in remote, slums and target areas.
   To target on increase in voter turnout in the identified low turnout P.S.
   Facilitation of the voters.
   Accessible election for PWDs.
   Effective outreach at every polling station for EVM/VVPAT sensitization and hands3 on
    training.

 Identification of gaps in electoral registration and voter turnout is
  necessary for planning voter awareness programmers.
 Identify Gender Gap
 Identify Youth Gap
 Identify PWD’s Voters
 Identify Female Voters
 Identify Pregnant Women Voter, Elderly 80+ voters etc.

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Analysing reason for gaps in registration:-
 Historical gaps in door to door survey.
 Lack of awareness among voters in certain pockets.
 Lack of gender sensitivity in society to register women as voters.
 Issue of Labour migration
 Immediate gap in the youth voters registrations
 Analysing reason for gaps in voter turnout:-
 Gender ratio gap in the voter list.
 EP Ratio gap in the voter list.
 Youth Voter's gap in the voter list.
 Labour migration issues.
 Urban apathy.
 Accessibility issues.
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 Youth Gap
     Migration of students to nearby cities for studies.
     Apathy in urban youth.
     Lack of awareness.

 Urban gap
     Migration (up and down daily) of population to nearby cities for Employment.
     Apathy to participate.
     Lack of awareness of polling booth.
     Hesitation because of long queues in polling booth.

 Tribal and Minorities
     Migration of population to nearby cities for Employment.
     Lack of awareness.
     Scattered population.
     Development issues.

 Gender Gap
     Lack of awareness.
     Development issues.
     Purdah Pratha.
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 Voter participation of women is hampered by social issues like
    hindrances to women empowerment, pregnancy, lactating mother's
    issue etc.
   There is gap in registration of minority voters due to development and
    social issues like purdah pratha, literacy issue etc.
   There is gap in registration of process with disabilities due to
    accessibility issues like administrative apathy, family apathy and lack of
    awareness.
   There is a gap in registration of tribal voter due to issues like migration
    to nearby cities for employment, scattered population and lack of
    awareness.
   Voter Participation of person with disabilities is seriously hampered by
    accessibility issues like lack of proper facilities like wheel chair, brail
    ballot paper, transportation challenge, lack of support staff etc.
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SVEEP strategy is being implemented at the state, District
Assembly Constituency and Polling Station level. Targeted
focus are like Youth, Women, Urban voters, excluded group
are also being included for new strategy implementation
under the SVEEP program.
Common Strategy for Voter Education and Awareness
are:-
 Voter's Information
 Voter's Motivations
 Voter's Facilitation

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 Major initiatives taken for Voter's information

 Know your BLO

 Know your Polling Station

 Being a Voter

 Get your EPIC

 Being Ethical

 EVM/VVPAT Awareness

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 Major initiatives taken for Voter's motivation

 Your Vote counts

 No Voter to be left behind

 Making Elections accessible

 Ethical Voting Pledge

 Motivational Videos, Messages

 Social Media campaigns

 SVEEP Partners Initiatives
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 Major initiatives taken for Voter's facilitation :

 Voters Facilitation Centre

 Helpline Number 1950

 SMS Helpline 51969

 Mobile App for PWD assistance

 Queue less Model Polling Station

 Websites, Portals and IT application

 Assured Minimum Facilities at booth

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Person with disabilities (PWD's) -
 Home to Home Facility - for accessible elections for persons with disabilities.
 Flagging of PWD's in the Electoral Roll.
 Appointment of volunteers for transport arrangements for PWD's
 Appointment of volunteers at Voter Assistance Booth
 Catering to PWD's needs like ramps, wheelchairs, brail ballot paper, brail enabled
   EVM, Sign language assistance etc.
 Divyang Mitra network shall be systematically utilized to target PWDs Voters

Youth -
 Awareness campaign n work shop in Education Institute
 Appointment of Nodal officers in all colleges.
 Appointment and training of Campus Ambassadors.
 Form-6 would to be made available in all Educational Institutions
 To prepare a database of student who have completed 18 year age for educational
   institutions and getting them enrolled in the voter list.

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Women -
 Plan to bridge gender gap in voter turnout at every pooling station.
 Special focus on assistance of pregnant women and lactating mothers.
 Appointment of Anganwadi and Asha workers at polling station to
  facilitate women voters.
 Separate toilet for female at every polling station.

Tribal and Minorities -
 Education tribal to cast their vote through Nukkad Natak, local geets,
  wall painting etc.
 Motivation and Inter personal Communication through tribal welfare,
  minority welfare and Education Department
 Inter personal communication through BLOs, Campus Ambassadors.

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 ICDS Network:‐ Anganwadi Workers - To help spread awareness among
  women and ensure registration of missing female voters and participation on
  poll day especially in rural areas. They have also helped in getting photos of
  female in non‐photo entries.
 Health Department: AASHA workers - to help in IEC campaign and
  enhancing female registration and participation on poll day. Identifying
  Pregnant & Lactating women to provide facilities on poll days. We intend to
  utilize the forum of weekly Mamta Diwas & Poshan Diwas to reach out to
  females of the villages for SVEEP.
 Civil Service Organizations CSO - The district has some good NGOs
  like Lion’s Club, Reliance foundation etc., which shall primarily be used for
  enrolling urban women and youth. There are many NGOs working for
  dissemination of voter's rights and spreading awareness on various aspects of
  election process focusing & helping PWDs mainly on the rural and tribal
  areas across the District.
 Media – The print and electronic media is engaged at District level as a
  partner for extensive voter education campaigns for enrollment, voter
  participation on poll day and ethical voting.
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 Identification of person with disabilities
 Flagging of PWD's in Electoral Roll
 Appointment of Volunteers for helping PWD's
 Arranging logistics for home to home facility
 Preparation of assistance material for vision &hearing impaired voters
 Preparation of assistance material for mentally challenged voters.
 Conduct of training for every stakeholder
 Arranging logistics for assistance to elderly, pregnant women and
  lactating women.
 Identification of pregnant women and lactating mother needing
  assistance
 Identification of elderly 80+ voters needing assistance
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 Print Media
 Electronic Media
 Social Media (Whats’app, Facebook, Twitter etc.)
 Call Centre & SMS Services
 Web Portal & Mobile Apps
 Cable TV Channels
 Common Outreach Activities
 Direct Engagement

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 Person with Disabilities (PWDs)
 Youth
 Women
 Elderly 80+ Years
 Service Personnel
 Poll Duty personnel
 Overseas Indian Citizen
 Transgender
 Domestic Migrants
 Urban Apathy Pockets

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 First time VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail ) are to be used in general
    election at such a large scale
   Majority of the voters are not aware about the functioning of VVPAT
   To uphold and maintain the trust of public in the institution of ECI, it is
    necessary that temper proof nature of EVM/VVPAT functioning is beyond
    doubt into the mind of the voters
   It is decided that EVM/VVPAT functioning training will be given to voters at
    every polling booth
   An EVM/VVPAT training calendar has been design for this purpose
   EVM/VVPAT training has been imparted through matdata jagrukta vehicle
    for a period of one month
   An EVM/VVPAT training at every Primary Health center, Anganwadi
    Kendra, Higher Secondary School, Tribal Hostel etc.
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 Wall Writing- Voter awareness & information about election will be wall
  painted along with this polling station of the near around areas will also be
  painted on the walls.
 Pictorial Walls- It’s easier to understand though pictorial forms & cartoon for
  all sections of the society be it literate or illiterate and that’s why pictorial
  presentations will be painted on the walls of all prime locations.
 Rallies – Motor cycles, hand lanterns and bicycle rallies of all sections of the
  society be it male, female, LGBT students youths will be organized throughout
  with the theme of voter awareness via placards, banners and through slogans.
 Flex hoarding and banners- Hoarding will be placed at tourist places and bus
  stand railway station, local bazaars, bank post office, hospitals, Polling Station
  etc. Banners will be placed in all the government offices and gram panchayat.
  Leaflets will be distributed to all the citizens containing information about how
  to register oneself, how to caste your votes thourgh EVMs and verify through
  VVPAT.

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 Human Chain- Human chain will be formed at schools, colleges and gram
  panchayat level and in urban area to spread the message of the casting the vote.
 Sports Competition – Sports like cricket, kabbadi, khokho and other
  traditional games will be organized for the voter awareness. Special preference
  about the awareness will be given to women, youths and PWD voters.
 Cultural Programs – Skit, street plays will be done by Yuva Mandal, SHGs and
  local artist teams in form of dance and will spread the message of informed and
  ethical voting.
 Exhibition- Process of how to register oneself, how to check one’s name via
  EPIC number, area,etc will be displayed in the exhibition. How the counting
  process in carried out, how the oath is taken and the complete election process
  including awareness about NOTA will be displayed in form of photo gallery, flex
  and paintings.

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360 Degree Communication

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 SVEEP calendar as monitoring tool
 Distribute work and right man for the right job
 DEO - School ELCs
 AC Tribal - College ELCs
 DD SJ - PWD Voters
 CMO Nagar Palika /Parishad , CEO Janpads – Establishment of
  Chunav Pathshala (ELC) as a BAG.
 Activate BAGs at the earliest
 VAFs – Organization, Rotary, Lions, Press Clubs, Bankers, Industry,
  NSS, NYK.

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