Kohima, June 15 (DIPR): Nagaland State Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Core Committee meeting of government departments was held on June 14 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima.
Chief Electoral Officer (Officiating) Nagaland, N. Moa Aier, who chaired the meeting, called upon the media to spread the message so that people will know about the campaign resulting in clean electoral roll. He discouraged sending negative ideas to the village areas and urged to spread positive ideas and awareness so that village areas can learn about clean e-roll. He further encouraged all to cast their vote and take election duty as their own duty. Meanwhile, he said the NCC and students should also spread the message of clean election. Aier also noted SVEEP activities started in 2011 and are continuing with better results.
An overview of SVEEP was presented by Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland, Vekho Vero. He said that everybody should play their role for clean electoral roll. SVEEP, he said, is to facilitate/ enhance registration in the ER or delete ineligible entries and it is a multi-intervention programme to educate citizens and electors about electoral process in order to increase their awareness and participation. He also mentioned the aims as increasing electoral participation through voter registration and turnout, increasing qualitative participation in terms of ethical and informed voting and providing continuous electoral and democracy education to the people. He said the problems encountered was inflation of voter registration, non-registration and non-participation of non-resident Indians, Registration of 18 to 19 years age group – as low as 17.57% as compared to 2011 census and corrupt electoral practice like proxy voting, intimidation, case of paid news, alleged buying and selling of voters.
