Exhibition in Odisha’s Rayagada traces journey of India’s electoral reforms | Bhubaneswar News

BHUBANESWAR: The journey of electoral reforms in impartial India for the reason that first Lok Sabha polls in 1951-52 has been exceptional. To showcase this journey, the Rayagada district administration has taken up a novel initiative which will even give the present technology of voters a peek into the previous.

The district administration has arrange an exhibition centre at Gunupur the place historic supplies and parts utilized in previous elections are on show.The district election officer-cum-collector Manoj Satyawan Mahajan inaugurated it within the presence of Gunupur sub-collector Kirandeep Kaur Sahota amongst others.

“The initiative will function a reminder not solely to the voters but in addition the younger technology of the significance of voting and grownup suffrage,” learn an ‘X’ submit from the official deal with of the state chief electoral officer (CEO).
Historic information and images showcased within the exhibition have been sourced from the Election Fee of India. The target of holding the exhibition is to lift consciousness underneath the Election Fee’s systematic voters’ training and electoral participation programme (SVEEP). The exhibition additionally shows a portray made by some tribal artists of Lanjia Saura tribe of Rayagada. The Saura portray or popularly generally known as Idital exhibits a polling station.
“We additionally displayed previous election associated supplies like poll containers and lanterns utilized in these days earlier than superior amenities and know-how have been launched,” Kaur stated. The exhibition centre turned out to be a crowd puller. College students discovered the exhibition a perfect platform to realize information concerning the electoral reforms within the nation.
“We learnt that 1,864 candidates had contested the primary Lok Sabha polls in 1951-52 for 489 seats. The nation, its citizens and know-how have developed loads. Altogether 24,73,850 steel poll containers and 1,11,095 wood poll containers have been used within the first normal elections. Digital voting machines have been first utilized in an meeting ballot in 1998 and expanded to a bit of parliamentary constituencies in 1999,” stated Santosh Pradhan, a neighborhood scholar, including that, “Right this moment, cellular functions like ‘cVigil’ have made our election monitoring extra clear, accountable and inclusive.”