Election officer eases process for students to register as voters in Pune | Pune News
Pune District Election Officer Minal Kalaskar said Wednesday her office has eased the voter registration process to help students, especially outstation students. Speaking to The Indian Express, Kalaskar said a letter from the hostel warden confirming that a student resides in Pune will be taken as residence proof for voter registration. Story continues below this ad Since the elections last year for the state Assembly, the district has added around 40,000 new members, aged 18-19, to the electoral roll. “Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation(SVEEP) programme is conducted by the Election Commission of India in colleges in the form of camps to enrol the voters who are freshers in college,” she said. “We have conducted two to three kinds of other activities as well. The first activity was called ‘of the student, to the student, by the student’ and started at Cummins Engineering College, where we gave training to ten college students. Then, we gave one week for the students to get the documents necessary to enrol their names in the voter’s list. After that, …
