After the success of its experiment with polling cubicles arrange inside cooperative housing societies in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, the Election Fee of India (ECI) has determined to take the initiative to a way more granular stage for the continued Maharashtra Meeting elections.
For the Maharashtra Meeting elections underway Wednesday, the Election Fee has arrange polling cubicles on the 126 housing societies in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. However as teething troubles stay, voters hoped the issues can be resolved quickly.
Sales space stage officers Suvarna Gogawale, Ratnamala Pimpare, and Sangeeta Misal mentioned they hoped this train would assist drive up the voting share. Jalindar Singhare, one other ballot officer, mentioned this could assist the citizens. “We really feel the polling share can be over 60 as most individuals would come to vote,” mentioned Gogawale.
At Kendriya Vihar Cooperative Housing Society in Moshi, chairman Suresh Bhosale mentioned they had been approached by ballot officers to put in polling cubicles inside the premises. “After a dialogue with the members, we agreed. We’ve got three polling cubicles in our neighborhood corridor,” he mentioned.
The society has round 1,000 residents as voters and the cubicles have round 4,000 individuals enrolled to vote. Bhosale mentioned round 50 per cent of the residents had been listed on the society sales space for voting whereas the remainder had been despatched to the previous polling sales space in Borhadewadi, round 5 km away. “It’s a reduction that our senior residents can vote inside their society, however we must always have all of the voters right here,” he mentioned.
The Netaji Nagar Cooperative Housing Society at Lullanagar is among the many 126 polling cubicles within the Pune district. The 49-year-old housing society has 582 flats throughout 39 buildings, with a voting inhabitants of 1900.
Its chairman Ravindra Mhaskar mentioned voting had been a clean course of to this point. “Our efforts have been to achieve out to residents who’ve flats within the society however now keep elsewhere. No less than 50 per cent of the residents have moved out attributable to small flats right here. We’ve got reached out to a number of,” added Mhaskar.
Shankar Karasgikar, 82, a retired professor on the Faculty of Engineering Pune Technological College, mentioned voting inside the society premises was a special expertise.
Nevertheless, all will not be properly in different societies in Pune. At Voyage Cooperative Housing Society in Moshi, solely 20 per cent of its residents have their names registered on the sales space there.
Nitik Singh, the property supervisor of the housing society, mentioned they began the method of enrolling voters within the final two months. “All these kinds are nonetheless in our workplace. There are principally outsiders who’ve come to vote right here,” he mentioned.
At Raheja Backyard Federation Cooperative Housing Society, Wanowrie, polling sales space stage officer Asha Bhosale guided residents of close by societies as they waited to determine the sales space the place they might forged their votes.
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