GUWAHATI, Feb 11 - In a bid to create awareness among citizens about voting rights, students of IIT Guwahati have undertaken a campaign aimed at enlightening citizens about their right to vote and how they could exercise that right.
The campaign � �Wake Up and Vote� � launched by the students of IIT-Guwahati in the city � is part of the institute�s techno-management festival �Techniche�.
The right to vote campaign is aimed at spreading awareness that voting builds a healthier nation and strengthens democracy. The 18th edition of �Techniche� will be organised from September 1 to 4, 2016.
�Techniche has always been a torchbearer when it comes to rights and duties of the citizens of India. Backed with an enormous success in 2014 where Techniche successfully had thousands of people taking a pledge to vote throughout the country, this year the team Techniche is back with full force for the Assam elections. In this respect, the team is helping the Election Commission to get voter ID cards of hundreds of people in Guwahati who do not have a photograph on the cards,� Rajat, an organising committee member of Techniche 2016, said.
On February 6, team Techniche reached about 20 villages where they generated awareness over elections and successfully collected 200 registrations for Voter IDs.
�It was a great experience working with the students of IIT Guwahati. The team effort was brilliant. This is the first time any student community has stepped in to help people correct their errors in the voter ID cards and formulation of new ones. People with the errors in voter ID face many problems for verification process and this effort from Techniche just before the Assam elections is worth applauding,� Golapi Das, booth level officer of the Hajo constituency, said.
�We have many events and campaigns lined up to educate the people on the need to vote. �Wake Up and Vote� is what the State needs right now,� Rajat added.