State level SVEEP core committee meeting held at Agartala

The State level Systematic Voter Education and Election Preparation (SVEEP) core committee meeting was held at Agartala on Friday , presided by Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) tripura, Kiran Gitte. Additional Chief Electoral Officer Usha Jen Mog, Additional Chief Electoral Officer S Bandopadhyay , Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Suman Banik, Secretary of Agartala Press club Pranab Sarkar and others were present in the meeting. 

The meeting was held to conduct free and fair election of Tripura Legislative Assembly .2023. To ensure maximum turnout of the upcoming Tripura assembly general election-2023 as directed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to strengthen SVEEP campaign ,election of multiple constituencies from distant polling station through RVM, to achieve voting percentage higher than 88% in 2013 in 929 polling stations, encourage new voters in vote casting, arrangement of ramp, wheel chair and separate queue for disabled persons and 80 plus voters in polling stations, engage and deployment of civil and security forces to prevent any kind of poll violence were discussed in detail.

It may be recalled here that the ECI is launching a pilot project to ensure vote casting of migrant voters. ECI has developed a multi constituency remote electronic voting system. Political parties have been invited to view demonstration of the use of this prototype RVM. Alpana competition will be held in every assembly constituency of the state on the eve of ‘Pous Sankranti’ on the theme of peaceful, free and fair election and prizes will be awarded to the winners of the competition. A logo has been created for the Tripura Assembly Election, 2023.