24 days left to go for HoR Polls: EC focuses on voter's education programme

Kathmandu, Feb 9: The Election Commission (EC) has expedited the voter education programme to aware the voters targeting the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for March 5. 

The EC has created and circulated contents through digital platforms and other measures to aware the voters and reduce the percentage of invalid votes, according to the EC. The EC has already approved the voter education related programmes on February 2 for this purpose. 

The EC shared that volunteers would be mobilized to effectively disseminate messages on voter education. A volunteer would be deputed at the ward level from the concerned Office of the Returning Officer. It is shared that the volunteers are going to be deputed in all 6743 wards of the country.

Child development facilitators, women health volunteers and community service centre operators would be appointed for voter education.

The EC has already signed the agreement with the state-owned media houses including the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) and regulatory body for the production of voter education content and effective mobilization. (RSS)