Udham Singh Nagar: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has adopted a new method to ensure the participation of women in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
ECI has introduced nine all-women polling booths in nine assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district to increase the women voting percentage.
There will be 1,402 polling booths in the nine assembly constituencies where nine booths will be managed and operated by all-women teams, which would include armed female cops for security.
Apart from cops, presiding officers, polling officers and all other staff would be women employees.
U'khand: EC introduces all-women polling booths in 9 assembly constituencies
ECI has introduced nine all-women polling booths in nine assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district to increase the women voting percentage.
All-women polling booths in Uttarakhand
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District Assistant RO Jagdish Chandra Kandpal said that such kind of initiative has been taken for the first time by the election commission. "This has been done with the vision to empower women, stress on gender equality and increase the voting percentage by encouraging them," he added.
He further said that the number of booths might be increased in future.
The 2019 general election is scheduled to be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19. The counting of votes will be conducted on May 23, and on the same day, the results will be declared.