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Daltonganj, Feb 24: In the first outreach program for SVEEP (Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation), St Mariam’s school organised an awareness camp on ‘Why youths should vote for democracy” today on its campus.
Inspirational chorus, speeches and voter awareness initiatives
A brilliant chorus sung by the girls of this school ‘Jago Jago Rey Matdata Jago Ray, Vidhata Bano Bharat Kay’ was the highlight of the SVEEP. It was not only sweet and melodious but highly inspirational and motivational.
No less important was the speech of the chairman of this school Avinash Dev who in his speech asked the students “Prevail upon your parents and Dada Dadis not to while away time on the day of polling but must reach the polling booths and cast their votes. Have you not heard from others that grandsons carry their grandmothers in a cot to enable them to vote?”
School students like Falak Perwez and Aryan Agrawal made good speeches on the importance of voting.
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S B Saha of the school said “We know the dates for festivals be it Holi or Eid etc but we don’t know as to on which date our polling is unless notified by the Election Commission of India.”
There was a galaxy of intelligent Rangoli promoting voting.
Palamu DC stresses voting equality and women’s participation
District election officer Shashi Ranjan who is the DC here addressed the students as ‘friends’. It immediately connected him to the young gathering.
Shashi Ranjan asked them to know that voting right promotes a sense of equality. A rich man has one vote right like any poor man. No business tycoon has anything more than one vote.
The DC reminded that women have been a regular partner in elections, unlike the superpower US where the right for women to cast a vote came much later than India.
He pushed off saying election time has pressing tasks. DDC Ravi Anand too went midway.
St Mariam’s School is the first among all the CBSE afCBSE-affiliates to organise SVEEP here in Daltonganj.
DDC Ravi Anand was there but had to move out with the DC following some administrative preoccupations.
Back on the stage remained the IAS probationer, AC and LRDC, who conducted the remaining SVEEP content elegantly.
