PWC girls exhorted to register their names in electoral roll

B K Mishra & VK Tripathi / TNN / Updated: Dec 08, 2023, 09:32 IST

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PWC girls exhorted to register their names in electoral roll

PATNA: The electoral literacy club (ELC) of Patna Women’s College (PWC), in association with the Election Commission of India, on Thursday organised an electoral literacy drive for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the college. Hundreds of college girls attended the programme and took a pledge to create awareness in the society about the advantages of exercising their right to franchise and electing their true representative.The main objective of the programme was to educate the students about the importance of voting.Patna district magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh gave the details of the electoral literacy campaign launched in educational institutions for motivating the students above 18 years of age for getting them registered as voters. He also interacted with the girls and replied satisfactorily to all their queries. “Active participation in the voting process helps in making a good government and it is the duty of all citizens to exercise their franchise,” the DM said.We also published the following articles recently

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