Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral participation Strengthening and Deepening DEMOCRACY through Enhanced Voting By District Election Officer –cum- District Magistrate ROHTAS. SVEEP Rohtas ⁕TABLE OF CONTENTS⁕ 1. Background 2. Overview:- • Rohtas District:- An Introduction • Administrative Machinery • Constituencies • E/P ratio • Gender Ratio • Voter turnout ratio SVEEP PLAN 3. 4. Special Focus Groups • Migrants • PwD • First Time Voters • Women • Third Gender 5. SVEEP Committee 6. Division Of Work 7. Involvement of Government Departments 8. Collaboration of Multimedia and Partners 9. SVEEP Activity Calendar SVEEP Rohtas Overview - India, the largest democracy, has the legal age of 18 years and above for casting vote for assembly and parliamentary elections. Election Commission of India (ECI) has been consistently putting indomitable effort to cover the entire citizenry of India which is eligible for registration in the electoral roll and aims to make them participate in the voting process. To a greater extent, these efforts have produced results but a lot of efforts still needs to be done in this direction. Pressing issues like lesser understanding of importance of electoral process, lesser presence of women, working men, youth at polling stations, accessibility of vulnerable sections of the society to polling booths and intimidated voters still pose challenges for the system. To address all such issues, Election Commission of India has unfolded the strategy of SVEEP. SVEEP stands for Systematic Voters’ Education for Electoral Participation, a process of concerted interventions to add people in electoral process by sensitization and facilitation and ascertains increased participation of eligible age group people across all the sections, gender, caste, creed, religion of society. When electoral situation described in this report is seen, it is clear that certain polling booths have shown dismal turnout and poor participation of women and youth voters. In such context, the significance of SVEEP becomes relevant. SVEEP focuses on targeted approach to bridge the gaps of enrolment turnout at Polling booths, urban apathy and to wipe out the fear and favor factors by spreading awareness and confidence building measures. Other than ensuring free and fair polling in the district, SVEEP will focus on few areas to get the impressive outputs in terms of high level of awareness and huge turnout at polling stations. SVEEP Rohtas Rohtas District: - Introduction ➢ Date of Declaration of District: 10th November 1972 ➢ Latitude: 24-30” to 25-20” (North) ➢ Longitude: 83-14” to 83-20” (East) ➢ Height from Sea Level: 107.78 Meter ➢ Boundaries ➢ North: Bhojpur & Buxar Districts South: Plamu & Garwah Districts EAST: Aurangabad & Part of Gaya District WEST: Kaimur District ➢ Area: 3,847.82 Sq Km ➢ Total Population: 29,62,593 ➢ Male: 15,47,856 ➢ Female: 14,14,737 ➢ Sex Ratio: 914 females per 1000 males ➢ No. of Subdivisions: 3 ➢ No. of Blocks: 19 ➢ No. of Revenue Circles: 19 ➢ No. of Municipalities: 7 ➢ Literacy Rate : 75.59% ➢ No. of Gram Panchayats: 245 ➢ No. of Villages: 2072 SN Statitics To Be Filled 1 2 3 1 POPULATION-2011 2962593 2 PROJECTED POPULATION- 3848942 3 POPULATION DENSITY 770 4 LITERACY RATE-TOTAL 73.37 5 LITERACY RATE-MALE 88.88 6 LITERACY RATE-FEMALE 62.97 7 GROWTH RATE-TOTAL 20.78 SVEEP Rohtas Administrative Setup Rohtas district is a part of Patna Division. Presently, Rohtas consists of three Sub-divisions and 19 Blocks. The district Rohtas was carved out of Old Shahabad district on 10th November 1972. It is situated in the south weseran part of Bihar. Its headquarter is located at Sasaram. District Magistrate District Magistrate is posted in the district who is the top most official of Revenue and civil administration. District Magistrate plays a vital role in District Election Management as District Election Officer. Mr. Pankaj Dixit, I.A.S. is posted as District Magistrate of Rohtas. Superintendent of Police The Superintendent of Police, Rohtas is the head of the district police administration. Mr. Satyaveer Singh, I.P.S. is posted as Superintendent of Police of Rohtas. Constituency Parliamentary Constituency Rohtas district covers the parts of three Lok Sabha constituencies namely 35- Karakat P.C. whose Returning Officer is DEO- Cum- DM Rohtas, 34- Sasaram P.C. & 33- Buxar P.C. Assembly Constituencies Rohtas has Seven Assembly constituencies which are listed below. SVEEP Rohtas AC No. AC NAME 207 CHENARI(SC) 208 SASARAM 209 KARGAHAR 210 DINARA 211 NOKHA 212 DEHRI 213 KARAKAT SVEEP Rohtas ELECTORAL ROLL:- State assembly elections in a democratic country like India play instrumental role in the development of not only that state but of the nation as a whole by choosing democratically elected, popular governments through this system In the year 2020, Assembly elections are scheduled in the state and preparations are on in full swing. Rohtas is one of the districts of Bihar and situation pertaining to the preparation of election is highlighted through the topics discussed below: Sl. No. Particulars Value 1 No of Total Electors 21,51,380 2 No. of Male Electors 11,29,282 3 No. of female Electors 10,22,035 4 No. of Other Electors 63 5 Electors to Population Ratio 0.55 6 Gender Ratio (Electors) 906 7 EPIC Coverage (%) 100% SVEEP Rohtas AC wise Electors AC General Electors No Name Male Female Others Total 207 Chenari (SC) 157733 139731 5 297469 208 Sasaram 178854 162361 6 341221 209 Kargahar 166468 149848 11 316327 210 Dinara 156026 140840 5 296871 211 Nokha 150422 136064 12 286498 212 Dehri 151377 139208 6 290591 213 Karakat 168402 153983 18 322403 TOTAL 1129282 1022035 63 2151380 SVEEP Rohtas Constituency wise Elector information (Elector-Population ratio) Name Ratio of Electors to Assembly Total Population (Projected Electors as per proposed Draft Roll w.r.t. Of Population Constituency 2020) 01.01.2020 as the qualifying date District EP RATIO Third No Name Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Gender 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 207 Chenari (SC) 290641 285300 575941 157577 139208 5 296790 0.54 0.49 0.52 208 Sasaram 311797 306076 617873 178443 162109 5 340557 0.57 0.53 0.55 209 Kargahar 278517 273405 551922 164797 148988 15 313800 0.59 0.54 0.57 210 Dinara 269295 264356 533651 155784 140784 4 296572 0.58 0.53 0.56 211 Nokha 263215 258381 521596 150162 136002 12 286176 0.57 0.53 0.55 ROHTAS 212 Dehri 268449 263524 531973 150568 138770 6 289344 0.56 0.53 0.54 213 Karakat 296483 291040 587523 168519 154200 18 322737 0.57 0.53 0.55 District Total 1978397 1942082 3920479 1125850 1020061 65 2145976 0.57 0.53 0.55 SVEEP Rohtas Elector-Population Ratio 0.58 0.57 0.56 0.55 0.54 0.53 0.52 0.51 0.50 0.49 Chenari (SC) Sasaram Kargahar Dinara Nokha Dehri Karakat 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 The E/P Ratio of the district is 0.55, Assembly wise, it is observed that it ranges from 0.52 in AC-207- Chenari to 0.57 in AC-209- Kargahar .The E.P ratio of female is 0.53 whereas EP ration of male is 0.57. • It is observed that enrollment is less due to lack of awareness, the prevailing perception to register in voter list after marriage. In order to tackle this perception elector female enrollment special drive is being undertaken to motivate eligible young female to enroll in voter list. SVEEP Rohtas • It is observed in age cohort graph that in age group 18-19 projected population in this age group is 1,59,049 but the number of electors in age group 18-19 is 30,785. Number of missing voters, yet to be registered in this age group is very large. District Age-Cohort Wise Elector Information Name of District: ROHTAS Year of Revision 01.01.2020 District Population in numbers (projected upto the year of current revision) [X] 3920479 District Population of 18+ only (projected upto year of current revision) [Y] 2032789 Projected Census %age of Electors as per Population in %age of (2) to (4) to 'X' currently proposed %age of (4) to 'Y' i.e. age cohort 'X' i.e. total i.e. total Age Cohort Draft Roll w.r.t. registered voters vs (Projected Population as population 01.01.2020 as qualifying eligible voters upto the year per census as per date of current voter roll revision) 1 2 3 4 5 6 18-19 159049 4.06 30785 0.79 1.51 20-29 558378 14.24 478306 12.20 23.53 30-39 446847 11.40 532317 13.58 26.19 40-49 376014 9.59 495259 12.63 24.36 50-59 228669 5.83 298910 7.62 14.70 60-69 155503 3.97 185040 4.72 9.10 70-79 76173 1.94 91475 2.33 4.50 80+ 32156 0.82 33884 0.86 1.67 District Total 2032789 51.85 2145976 54.73 105.56 • Special Enrolment drives in various colleges specially in Girls colleges, using social media platforms and local cable TV for awareness and education of voters. Special drives in higher secondary schools, Degree Colleges and coaching institutions etc for youth voters’ awareness. SVEEP Rohtas • To enhance E/P ratio and enrollment of migrant laborers and other eligible but left out persons, special enrollment camps had been planned on 30th of july and 4th of August at all polling station of the district . College students are motivated to apply online through NVSP.in or ERONET to become of voter. On national voters days all young voters who will be first time voters were facilitated. • Selfie Zone, Online Facilitation counters for adding never has been established.