The Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana felicitated the officials and college students involved in staging of street plays as part of outreach activities on SVEEP. The Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) is the flagship program of the Election Commission of India for voter education, spreading voter awareness and promoting voter literacy in the country.

  

 

Speaking on the occasion, Shri Vikas Raj, the chief electoral officer of Telangana said that communication outreach activities undertaken under SVEEP in collaboration with various offices during the SSR yielded good results with huge number of fresh voter registration applications coming in. Appreciating the efforts of the Central Bureau of Communication, Ministry of I&B’s efforts towards bringing about an innovative way to reach out to urban voters, he said that the pilot model of staging street plays at urban centres will be scaled up in future.

The ADG CBC, Smt Shruti Patil said that since CBC effectively uses various traditional art forms to reach out to the people regarding various government policies and programmes, more such collaborative efforts could be developed as one of the best practices which could be emulated elsewhere in the state too. She further elaborated that the srtists in the CBC song and drama division scripted the street play, then fanned across to different colleges of the city and trained five groups comprising of 10 students each. The groups then performed the street play at various places in Hyderabad like Golkonda fort, Tank bund, Indira park, Charminar etc and the play evoked very good public response.

The Joint CEO Sh. Ravikiran, Deputy Director AIR News Shri Rahul Gowlikar, Principals and students of the colleges participated in the event.

 

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