{"id":6855,"date":"2019-12-30T06:47:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2019-12-30T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:47:44","slug":"eci-conducts-national-workshop-on-accessible-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/eci-conducts-national-workshop-on-accessible-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"ECI conducts National Workshop on Accessible Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Election Commission of India organized a National\nWorkshop on Accessible Elections. The Workshop was organized with the purpose\nof reviewing steps taken as yet by ECI for making Elections PwD and Senior Citizens\nfriendly and to deliberate on steps still required to make the process more\ninclusive and accessible. The workshop aimed to address more by the individual\nand the family, Accessibility is a problem that needs more institutional\nremedies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhaustive mapping of PwD voters, providing transport\nfacility, special volunteers, Assured Minimum Facilities like ramp, wheelchair,\nsign language, EVM with Braille at polling station and most recently, the\nprovision of postal ballots to PwD voters are some of the initiatives taken by\nElection Commission of India to ensure accessibility and uphold the tenet of\n\u2018No Voter to be Left Behind\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of India organized a National Workshop on Accessible Elections. 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