KL Report
SRINAGAR
As election campaigning ended for the first phase of assembly polls on Sunday evening, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Kashmir Circle Monday surprisingly started the voice messaging and asked the people of Jammu and Kashmir to vote.
Wishing anonymity one of the top officer of the BSNL told KNS, “We had earlier received a request from the Chief Electoral Officer of J&K to start a voice messaging service on mobile phones by which people, on picking up the handset, would hear a message to cast their vote on the polling day. On the request of him we have started the voice messaging and asked the people to vote. Moreover it was an effort to make the public aware of their voting a day before voting.”
He said that the message will reach to 4.5 lakh mobile users, and “we have decided to extend the service to mobile users in the next phase of polling as well.”
“Under the plan, the message for ‘Vote’ would continue on all mobiles of the BSNL subscribers till the polling day. Being a government enterprise, it is also our moral duty to support the district administration to motivate the people to cast their vote,” he said. Pertinently to register the highest poll percentage in the constituencies the Political parties as well as the district administration had designed various voter awareness campaigns for the last few days.
