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Nepal’s Election Commission has been selected among the best five election commissions of the world and a U.N. delegation is arriving Kathmandu for acquiring information about this, said Chief Election Commissioner Nilkantha Upreti at a program here Friday.[break]
“This is a matter of pride for Nepal,” CEC Upreti said. He added that the international community has highly praised the election to the Constituent Assembly held on 10 April 2008.
After the successful conduction of the CA election, the Election Commission has been moving forward programmes like voter education and the voter registration with photos with high priority.
The Chief Election Commissioner said that more than 9.5 million voters have registered their names along with their photographs.
Out of them 52 per cent are women. He said the number of men registering their names might have decreased as many men are abroad on foreign employment.
CEC Upreti also said that of the total voters registered so far, some 157 belong to the third gender.
He also said that the Election Commission has adopted the policy of maintaining gender equality in its works and also stated that the polling centres manned by women in the CA elections were found to be more effective than those managed by men.
The Chief Election Commissioner said the commission has adopted the policy of increasing the participation of women voting centre chiefs in the coming days and making the Election Commission gender-friendly.
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