SVEEP activities liven up college campuses

College campuses in Tiruppur district that accounts for eight Assembly segments falling in five Lok Sabha constituencies are agog with Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) awareness exercises being carried out by the Department of Information and Publicity.

Tiruppur North and Tiruppur South segments are in Tiruppur Lok Sabha constituency; Dharapuram (SC) and Kangayam (SC) in Erode Lok Sabha constituency; Avinashi in the Nilgiris Lok Sabha constituen

A student creates awareness among first-time voters on the right to vote.

cy; Palladam in Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency, and Udumalpet and Madathukulam are in Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency.

Earlier this week, Tiruppur District Collector T. Christuraj initiated a twowheeler rally at LRG College for Women. Rangoli and Mehendi competitions were conducted wherein the students highlighted the main slogans: Think Twice, Vote Wise, and Vote for Better India.

Officials of Revenue and other departments explained to the students that the flagship programme of the Election Commission of India for voter education, spreading voter awareness and promoting voter literacy in India was a multiintervention programme that reached out through different modes and media to educate citizens, electors, and voters about the electoral process to increase awareness and promote informed participation.

The staff of the Department of Social Welfare have been deployed to familiarise students with the Electronic Voting Machines.

There were 33,329 firsttime voters in Tiruppur district, and the endeavour is to reach out to them in large numbers in colleges, Public Relations Officer of Tiruppur district S.G. Satishkumar said. There was enthusiastic participation by students for the SVEEP awareness programmes in the forms of signature campaign and competitions, he added.