Fwd: Registration Drop-box in Hinjewadi IT Sector
Yash Sharma
From: Deepak Tawri <deepak...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Subject: Registration Drop-box in Hinjewadi IT Sector
To: DyDEO Pune <dyde...@gmail.com>
Dear madam,
As per your SMS yesterday and meeting with collector sir last week, I believe
you are setting up drop-box in Hinjewadi IT area. Can you please confirm that ?
Please see email thread below, there are 10k employees in one company itself!
count across companies would be much more (and believe me more than 70% of
them are not registered voters).
Please arrange the drop-box there as soon as possible.
There are plenty of professionals, plus our volunteers, in that area ready to help you.
regards,
deepak
Hi Vikram & All,
I’ve got 15-20 employees who want to be a part of this campaign as a volunteer. In addition to that nearly 100-150 employees promised to spread this awareness to their society members.
Please, share your views/ideas on this so that we can get more and more people registered. Also, we have contacted Cognizant, Tech M HR peoples however still need to check with them.
Regards,
From: Vikram Nandwani [mailto:vikram....@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 October 2012 07:21
To: Deepak Tawri
Subject: Re: Voters Registration Drive : GOOD NEWS
Hi... This is great news. In case drop boxes are being set up, i have 2 questions. 1) can we collect these forms and drop them. 2) can such boxes be arranged to be set up at offices like Infosys. We have like 10k employees in pune and everyone i talked to wants this to be done. I am sure my H R will be more than happy to support this too.
If you can please find this out... If it works it will become very easy.
Thanks very much
Vikram
Ph: 0 9158 900 910On Oct 13, 2012 11:53 PM, "Deepak Tawri" <deepak...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Please read Wankhede madam's reply below.
This is very positive step by Election Commission to make registration easier,
even if its limited to city area.
We as volunteers will continue effort of visiting societies and connecting
chairmen/citizens to local BLOs.---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: DyDEO Pune <dyde...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Citizens Experiences with Ongoing Voters Registration Drive
To: Deepak Tawri <deepak...@gmail.com>Hello Deepak,
good news,we r going to keep Drop Box at all the SETU kendra,and 8 Zone offices of Food grain distribution Office in city area.we'll publish their adresses and news of drop box in all news papers also on our website after making all arrangment.people can get req.forms and also can submit forms in the drop box.
thanx,
Regard's,
DyDEO Pune.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Deepak Tawri <deepak...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wankhede Madam,
After yesterdays press release, one of the news papers (Sakal) happened to publish
my phone no along with EC Helpline no. Since morning 7:30 am to 6:30 pm today,
there were more than 150 unique calls from citizens (86 I could respond + 92 missed
and some retried, thats why total is not 86+92).
I would like to share the experience of citizens and our views on that with the motive
that you could escalate it among your colleagues and rectify the source of huge frustration
among citizens with Election Commission.
1. 99% people had the same query/problem as where to go to collect/submit forms
and whom to call if they don't find anybody there.
EC should have published Booth Addresses and BLOs phone nos on 1st of Oct itself.
Even till today only 10 assembly areas BLO List has come, that too after 9 days of wait.
In absence of this important information, even NGO volunteers are helpless to help citizens.
At the most we tell to go to nearby school or give ERO/AERO phone no, but most of the time nobody
is there in school. ERO/AEROs don't respond phone and some have no idea where are the booths in
that area. (Yes, many have called me back to tell this). I am going to send you all these 150+ phone
nos so that EC can have chance to talk to them.
We can understand that EC has no dedicated huge staff and has to work at the mercy of teaching
staff who reluctantly take role of BLOs, however, if necessary information can be provided in right time,
NGOs and Citizens can fill the gap to a large extent.
2. Very Low Profile, that too very late, Publicity of the Drive by EC
There was a news in Sakal 3 days back that there is very low response from Citizens to the drive.
That was mostly because there was no publicity of the drive before that day at all. Even in TOI I saw
EC's ad today only!! The fact that, more than 150 readers of the same newspaper Sakal called in span
of 11 hours after seeing NGOs press release is proof that citizens are serious and responsive about
getting registered in electoral roll.
3. Existing voters have no way YET to verify if their names exist or got deleted!
EC Pune was suppose to publish current voters list by 1st of Oct at their website so that
citizens can submit their objection (if name got deleted etc) by 21st of Oct as per schedule
of EC. 10 days already passed, and citizens have no way to access the voters list. sigh!
Considering (1), (2) and (3), EC Pune must extend the registration drive by a month.
4. Many complained they have filled the form-6 before also and nothing happened
We are advising citizens to keep the receipt of form submission and file RTI in
January if ones name does not appear in electoral roll. It will be advisable to convey
to all BLOs and EROs that flood of RTI requests should be expected if forms are lost or
not submitted by BLOs to EROs or if EROs don't convey the reason of rejection if
they decide to reject.
5. There are many under-privileged citizens who don't have ID proof card and have just
address proof (e.g. electricity bill, or address in bank-passbook)
They asked how come people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are given voters
card easily and we Indians have to face so many problems to be a registered voter ?
6. Some said their name or address is wrong in Voters Card
We hope EC will hiring quality Data Entry Operators this time to avoid such problems
Thank you for reading this with patience.
We hope and expect that EC Pune will consider these issues with utmost urgency and
take necessary steps to address them.
regards,
deepak, on behalf of Sajag Nagrik Manch, IAC and Parivartan
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Regards
Yash Sharma