Free breakfast to diamond rings, EC on overdrive to boost voter turnout
Business Standard|May 08, 2024
Low voter turnout in several constituencies has prompted the Election Commission (EC) to take help from civil society, start-ups, traders' association and others to enthuse the electorate to turn up at polling booths.
ARCHIS MOHAN

The EC has said that the turnout, 66.14 per cent in phase 1 and 66.71 per cent in phase two, "seen against electoral participation history in India is among the best but somewhat lags behind the high benchmarks of 2019". "Urban apathy" towards voting, whether in Bengaluru Ghaziabad and Noida, remains a concern and it has prompted the poll panel to "double up" its efforts.

or The state election commissions (SEC) have organised street plays, musical shows and encouraged civil society to hold lucky draws for voters to get the electorate to queue up to exercise their franchise on the polling day in the subsequent phases.

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