SRINAGAR: In a move to ensure maximum participation of Kashmiri Migrants in the upcoming Assembly and Parliamentary elections, the Government has constituted teams to facilitate the enrollment of the displaced people from Kashmir putting up at Jammu and other parts of the India and help them cast their votes.
The Relief and Rehabilitation (M) Department has constituted 22 teams for in camp and non camp areas of JK UT, with an aim to spread awareness and manage facilitation of Kashmiri migrants in electoral rolls of the constituencies of their original residence in Valley. The department has also started various outreach programmes at Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Delhi and Chandigarh.
As per media reports, the teams of the Relief and Rehabilitation Organization have already been dispatched to outside Valley and they have visited Mumbai, Pune, Chandigarh and on Thursday the team is visiting Bangalore in Karnataka and Ahmedabad in Gujarat where the Kashmiri migrants are putting up to get them enrolled as voters in Valley and ensure that they will vote in coming Assembly and Parliamentary elections from their respective constituencies in Kashmir.
Besides, two special teams have been constituted wherein 16 officers, 56 officials and 50 Casual labourers have been engaged under the supervision of Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (M), J&K.
The process has already started and for Zonal Area Awareness Campaign, all the officers and officials of 22 Zones have been declared as BLO’s and have been assigned the task of conducting door to door awareness program and enrollment of Kashmiri Migrants in Electoral Rolls.
Excelsior reported that at present there are 1,20,000 migrant voters with Relief Organization and the department is motivating them to cast their vote in Kashmir so as to fulfill the gap created after their displacement.
The sole intention of the Government is that the Kashmiri migrants putting up in other States of country should actively participate in democratic process and exercise their right to franchise from the constituencies they belonged in Kashmir, Excelsior reported.
The whole Special Summary Revision campaign is being monitored under the supervision of Chief Electoral Officer, JK.
