According to Komal Dhamala, executive director of Electoral Education and Information Center (EEIC) at the Election Commission (EC), EEIC has proposed to conduct trainings and orientations from August 1. [break]
As per the proposed program, there will be five tiers of orientations and trainings for them. The trainings and orientations will be conducted at central level, regional level, district level, Village Development Committee (VDCs) or municipal wards and at the polling locations.
Dhamala stated that trainings and orientations would be conducted for seven groups of “master trainers” at the central level. The groups will be related to security, media, polling, counting, election management, accounts and logistics and computer. Each group of “master trainers” will have 25 people, he added.
The “master trainers” will carry out trainings in development regions while those trained will move to the district and the local level to provide trainings. The central level and regional level training will carried out for 14 days.
Asked how the voter education program would be different from that of the 2008 CA election, the executive director of EEIC said technology has brought some changes in the program. “The EC will use glue digital display, sign boards, SMS and social networks for voter education,” said Dhamala, adding, “They were not used during the last CA election.”
According to the proposed program, EC will form Voter Education Polling Location Co-ordination Committee headed by head teacher of schools in each polling location across the country.
Dhamala informed that the constitutional body will endorse the proposed program on voter education within the next two or three days. EC has already approved a policy related to voter education for the CA polls.
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