BEST ELECTORAL PRACTICES

Dr. Rajender Kumar (I.A.S.)District Election Officer, Surat

INDEXSr.No. Content

1. District Profile

2. Electoral Roll Analysis

3. Problem Identification

4. Identification of target Groups/Areas

5. Efforts Made for Enrollment of each Group

6. Partnering In SVEEP and NERPAP Campaign

7. Innovative methods to reach out to people

8. Results

9. Achievements

Surat District In Gujarat State Map3

DISTRICT PROFILESr.No.

Detail Information

1. Area 4326 sq km

2. Number of Talukas 14

3. Number of Villages 735

4. Name of Municipal Corporation

Surat Municipal Corporation

5. Number of Municipalities 6

6. Largest Taluka (Size) Mandvi

7. Largest Taluka (Population)

Choryasi

8. Smallest Taluka (Size) Palsana

9. Smallest Taluka (Population)

Palsana

10. Number of Assembly Constituency

16

11. Total Population (Census 2011)

60,43,976

Historically Surat city has distinction of being the capital city of erstwhile South Gujarat State.

The city is also called a diamond nagari. Surat city is the 2nd biggest city in Gujarat,

after Ahmedabad. Industrial Hub for :-

Diamond Industries, Textile Industries, Petroleum industries, Chemical Industries, Constructions, Embroidery Works.

Educational Hub :- One University One medical college, SVNIT Fifty self finance higher education

institutions. 325 self finance schools.

Sr.No.

Detail Information

1. Total Electors : Male 2036103

2. Total Electors : Female 1698244

3. Total Electors : Third Gender

62

4. Total Electors : 3734409

5. EP Ratio : 61.79

6. Gender Ration : 834

7. PER Coverage 100%

8. EPIC Coverage 100%

9. Black and White Photos :

718278

10. Errors marked in Roll 77371

2. ELECTORAL ROLL ANALYSIS AS PER (1.1.2014 QUALIFYING DATE DRAFT ROLL

3. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION Increasing urbanization. e.g. periphery of Surat

city.

Increasing industrialization. e.g. Pandesara,

Sachin, Kadodara, Hazira.

Major Migration : Due to industrialization and for

diamond – textile industries from out State area

and Saurashtra area respectively.

Remote area : Eastern belt (Mainly scheduled

tribes area).

Lack of awareness among potential electors.

Low registration of eligible female electors.

Low registration of newly eligible electors of age

group 18 – 19 years.

4. IDENTIFICATION OF TARGET GROUPS/AREAS

Registration of newly eligible electors of 18-19

Yrs. Age group.

Registration of young females especially newly

married females.

Registration of new electors coming through

migration in industrial area.

Registration of unaware, low literate potential

electors staying in remote area.

Registration of electors in newly developing

area particularly in out skirt area of surat city.

Registration of electors in slum area and

unauthorized colonies.

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (1)

Training and mobilization of Electoral roll machinery to achieve the targets.BLO and SO Training.Equip them with

material.Mobilization in field.

Young Electors awareness : Student seminar in

higher educational institutes.

Publicity at places where youth assembles (libraries, multiplexes).

BLO Training at Mandvi Taluka

Seminar at Shardayatan School

Multi media campaign through electronic, social and print media.News paper press

notes.Hoarding, Banners,

Posters.Cable scrolling.Cinema slides.FM Radio.Facebook page.Twitter page.WhatsApp group.Website of

Collectorate, Surat.

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (2)

Facebook Page Collectorate Website WhatsApp Group

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (3)

Motivate and educate women electors.Through NGOs.Seminars.Through Anganwadi

workers.Through Sakhi

Mandals.Through Mahila co-

Operative Societies.Through Women

Social groups.Through Resident

women.

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (4)

Motivate and educate Newly eligible electors.Young Voter Festival.Appointed designated

officers at higher educational institutes.

Special awareness programs like rallies, seminar, Slogan and Quiz competitions.

Slogan on Student Exam Hall Ticket

Rallies at Higher Edu. School.

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (5)

The Slogan was printed on the retail invoice of Gas by Gujarat Gas Company.

To facilitate and motivate migrated electors :Special team of labor

officer and BLO to camp in industrial area.

Provide facility to register in camps.

Industrialist asked to give leave to laborers for registration.

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (6)

Camp at Industrial Hub

Special effort to register electors in tribal and remote area.Special team to visit

such pockets to educate, facilitate such electors.

Involvement of local tribal leaders in this campaign.

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (7)

Sr. No.Publicity

ITEM

Activity Done at PS level or AC

level or District Level

Total Numbers

 

1.Hoardings

 

AC level and District Level

 

95

 

2. PostersPS level and AC

level and District Level

14000

3. Banner AC level 1700

4.

Stickers /Pasted

/distributed

PS level and AC level and District Level

10000

5. EFFORT MADE FOR ENROLLMENT OF EACH GROUPS (8)

6. PARTNERING IN SVEEP & NERPAP CAMPAIGN

Electronic & Print Media.

Educational Institutions.

Different Associations.

Industries.

Political Parties.

NGOs.

Government and Semi Govt. Department.

 

7. INNOVATIVE METHODS TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE

FM Radio.

WhatsApp Group.

Facebook Page.

Twitter Page.

Collector Surat Website.

Slogan printed on Retail Invoice of Gas Bill.

Slogan printed on Exam Hall tickets of

students. 

EP Ratio: By Tremendous efforts of SVEEP and NERPAP team, there is improvement in the EP ratio from 61.79% in 2014 to 63.41% in 2015, an increase of 1.62%.

Gender Ratio: The gender ratio as per 2011 census is 788 and the gender ratio as per 2014 electoral roll was 834. By making all efforts to register left out eligible female electors, the gender ratio as per 2015 electoral roll is 835, an increase of 1.

8. RESULTS

PER:

The PER was 100% as per 2014 electoral roll.

EPIC:

The EPIC coverage is 100% as per 2014 electoral

roll .

Age Cohort of 18-19 group :

The age cohort of age group of 18 - 19 years is

increased from 0.62 to 0.64 against the state

average of 0.67.

Total 59890 such electors were registered out of

215808 total registered i.e. 27.75% of the newly

registered electors.

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Errors Corrected Percentage

Wrong House No.0

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5000040032 37758

94.32

Wrong house no.

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Wrong names

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Wrong Gender0

3000 23461805

76.94

Wrong Gender

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40

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Wrong gender in re-lation

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1000 886

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80.02

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EPIC0

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7826

249031.82

epic

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ESR0

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68263

15676

22.96

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9. ELECTION WORK / ACHIEVEMENTS Awarded ‘Best District Election Officer’ by Governor of

Gujarat for 2012 State Assembly Elections.

Awarded ‘Best District Election Officer’ by Governor of

Gujarat for 2014 Parliament Election.

Selected as a nominee for special category award for

Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation in Best

Electoral Practices Awards, 2014 West Zone

Symposium by ECI for 2014 Election.

Received International Election Award from

International Centre for Parliamentary Studies in UK

for Transparency in Election Management in

November 2015.

THANKS…