Young Goa voters to be enrolled in colleges
September 20th, 2011 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANSPanaji, Sep 20 (IANS) Election officials in Goa, which is scheduled to go to polls next year, will now enroll young eligible voters outside their classrooms.
According to Goa’s chief electoral officer (CEO) Gonesh Koyu, the voter enrollment overdrive was a part of the Election Commission’s initiative to tap the 40,000-odd young first-time voters, ahead of the assembly polls to be held around June 2012.
“We have already talked to colleges and educational institutions, who have been asked to appoint a nodal officer for identifying students and enrolling them right there,” Koyu told reporters Tuesday.
“The nodal officer will be given enrollment forms and he will ask the students to fill the forms and submit them to us. There are nearly 40,000 youngsters who will become eligible voters soon. We are targeting them,” Koyu said, adding that finalisation of electoral rolls would be done by January next year.
“We want the youth to come in. Apart from looking at educational institutions, we are also organising voter education programmes, street plays and launching a mass media campaign,” Koyu said.
Goa had 9.99 lakh voter and nearly 20,000 new voters were being added to the list of eligible voters annually, he said.
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