SILCHAR: The Cachar district administration has supplied e-rickshaw facility to senior residents having issue in mobility for travelling to the polling stations to solid their votes within the second part of Assam meeting elections held on Thursday.
Cachar Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli additionally mentioned that the administration has gifted saplings to first male, feminine and senior citizen voters in lots of polling stations.
“The e-rickshaw facility has been supplied to 60-plus voters in Cachar particularly to those that have issue in mobility. They’re additionally being felicitated for exercising their franchise,” Jalli mentioned.
The deputy commissioner mentioned a number of eco-friendly mannequin polling stations have been arrange the place solely recyclable supplies had been used and these mannequin polling stations have proven the cultural legacy of the district by way of show of handicrafts and handlooms.
Members of self-help teams had been concerned in erecting lovely gates with conventional ‘Sheetal Pati’ mats, native clothes and ornamental items.
A report 201 polling stations, out of 1,834 in Cachar district, had been utterly managed by ladies officers.
The determine is 20 instances greater than 2016 polls when all-women-run polling stations was simply 10.
The district has about 12 lakh voters who’re exercising their franchise to elect seven MLAs.
The primary part elections to the 126-member Assam meeting was held on March 27 and the third part can be held on April 6.
