Experts List Steps To Improve Voter Turnout In City’s 3 Assembly Seats | Bhubaneswar News – Times of India

Bhubaneswar: Experts have suggested that implementing measures such as relocating booths to cater to urban voters residing in gated societies, addressing the issue of student and professional migration during elections, and ensuring the participation of city-based govt employees could potentially increase voter turnout in the three assembly constituencies within the city. The three constituencies — Central, North and Ekamra — are notorious for extremely low voting. One of the primary reasons why the seats do not record a reasonable footfall of voters is people here take the voting day as a holiday and don’t want to waste it by going out to vote. Bhubaneswar-Central MLA Ananta Narayan Jena said his constituency has 65,000 voters, who are govt employees, who usually…

Source: The Times of India
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