Facilitation centres to woo student voters yet to be set up in colleges

Updated on: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

New Delhi: The Election Commission's initiative of setting up facilitation centres in colleges here to attract more young voters this general elections is yet to take off, though the last date for voter registration is just a week away. Delhi's chief electoral officer Satbir Silas Bedi had proposed to set up facilitation centres in colleges where a student can avail the voter registration form, fill it and and submit it. This initiative aimed at smoothening the cumbersome process of voter registration and at encouraging the youth to exercise their electoral rights.

However, an official of the Delhi chief electoral office on Tuesday said they have yet not received any detail of any facilitation centre being set up in any university.

"Until now we have not received any detail or information about any such facilitation centre being set up in any college of any university," the official said.

Bedi, after a meeting with officials of six universities on March 13, said youth, in the age group of 18-19, were highly under-represented. There are 403,914 voters in this age group in the capital.

Among the universities participating in the meet were University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Milia Islamia, Jamia Hamdard, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Kalpana Bhrara, who represented University of Delhi in the meeting, doubted the efficacy of the effort now.

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