Nine model polling booths to come up in Faridkot

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, May 16

Taking steps so that long queues and lack of facilities at polling booths do not keep voters away, the Faridkot District Electoral Office has decided to set up nine model polling booths in the district — three in each Assembly constituency.

District Electoral Officer Kumar Saurav Raj on Wednesday said at these polling booths, the voters would get adequate place to sit, a help desk to guide them, drinking water facility and a selfie point. Besides, children accompanying their parents to these polling stations would face no problem as there would be availability of toys for tiny tots, he said.

The model polling booths would address voters’ concerns. Three model polling booths are being established at Government Barjindra College in Faridkot, two booths at Government Elementary School, Kotkapura, one at Government High School at Koharwala village and three such polling booths at Saraswati Senior Secondary School at Jaito.

The polling booths will have lounges where people can sit until their turn comes ensuring queue-less voting. It will have drinking water and sanitation facilities for those who visit the polling booths. There will be air coolers and sufficient lighting in the voting rooms. Voters will be given a red carpet welcome.

“We want to make voting an exercise of great importance and encourage people to vote,” Kumar Saurav said. The ambience will be homely and given a festive appearance. There will be first-aid kits and toys facilities for children accompanying voters,” he said.

Some people do not want to spend hours in the heat, waiting in queues for their turn. They prefer not to vote. Setting model polling booths is an attempt to ensure that maximum voters come and caste vote, said Kumar Saurav.