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Low voter turn out is one of the recurring maladies affecting the electoral health in Kolkata North Electoral District. In the last parliamentary elections (2014), Kolkata North with 66.65 percent had the lowest voter turn out in the state. Among all the constituencies in the State it was the lowest, although in the all India perspective, it was even higher than the national average. Chowranghee Assembly Segment recorded lowest voter turn out at 57.73%. During the Assembly General Elections 2016 in the State, voting percentage dipped further in the district and the seven assembly constituencies together reported 64.27 percent. Jorasanko Assembly Constituency recorded the lowest VTR at 53.62%. It is in this perspective, Team Kolkata North decided to develop several short campaign films to reach out to the voters of the Parliamentary Constituency with a clarion call to come out for voting on 19 May 2019 when elections are scheduled to be held in the Constituency.  Since...

National Voters' Day 2018 had 'accessible elections' as its theme. Major thrust was on making elections accessible to the differently able adults, who are often kept out of the electoral process for several reasons, consciously or even unconsciously. Election Commission of India, with support from the states and union territories, have been trying consistently to break the jinx and seamlessly integrate the people with different ability into the electoral process.  On 3-4 July 2018, Commission organised a national consultation on accessible elections. Proceedings of the national consultation are available on the website of the Election Commission of India.  On the concluding day of the Workshop, the Commission released a document containing the strategic framework for accessible elections . When the General Elections of the Indian Parliament 2019 is knocking at our door, the Commission initiated several measures to reach out to the differently able people with i...