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Assembly Bye Election 2020

Assembly Constituencies 166 -Agar

District SVEEP Plan 1

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Communication Plan

•Overall Approach

•Target Communication

and outreach

•EVM & VVPAT

Awareness

•Common Outreach

Activities

Monitoring Mechanism

•Responsibility

Objective

Situation Analysis

•Electoral Roll Profile

•Identification of Gap in Participation

(Registration and Turnout)

•Analyzing Gap

Strategy and Planning

•Common strategy for Voter Education &

Awareness

•Targeted Approach for Voter Education &

Awareness

•SVEEP Structure

•SVEEP Partner

•Resources Mobilization

•Accessible Election

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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 everyvoters

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 hands 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.8

SVEEP strategy is being implemented at the state, DistrictAssembly Constituency and Polling Station level. Targetedfocus are like Youth, Women, Urban voters, excluded groupare also being included for new strategy implementationunder 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 Initiatives11

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 enabledEVM, 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 educationalinstitutions 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 tofacilitate 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 assistance18

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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

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Wall Writing- Voter awareness & information about election will be wallpainted along with this polling station of the near around areas will also bepainted on the walls.

Pictorial Walls- It’s easier to understand though pictorial forms & cartoon forall sections of the society be it literate or illiterate and that’s why pictorialpresentations will be painted on the walls of all prime locations.

Rallies – Motor cycles, hand lanterns and bicycle rallies of all sections of thesociety be it male, female, LGBT students youths will be organized throughoutwith the theme of voter awareness via placards, banners and through slogans.

Flex hoarding and banners- Hoarding will be placed at tourist places and busstand railway station, local bazaars, bank post office, hospitals, Polling Stationetc. Banners will be placed in all the government offices and gram panchayat.Leaflets will be distributed to all the citizens containing information about howto register oneself, how to caste your votes thourgh EVMs and verify throughVVPAT.

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Human Chain- Human chain will be formed at schools, colleges and grampanchayat level and in urban area to spread the message of the casting the vote.

Sports Competition – Sports like cricket, kabbadi, khokho and othertraditional games will be organized for the voter awareness. Special preferenceabout the awareness will be given to women, youths and PWD voters.

Cultural Programs – Skit, street plays will be done by Yuva Mandal, SHGs andlocal artist teams in form of dance and will spread the message of informed andethical voting.

Exhibition- Process of how to register oneself, how to check one’s name viaEPIC number, area,etc will be displayed in the exhibition. How the countingprocess in carried out, how the oath is taken and the complete election processincluding awareness about NOTA will be displayed in form of photo gallery, flexand paintings.

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360 Degree Communication

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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