Photos: Braille-coded voter cards distributed to visually impaired electors
To facilitate participation of differently-abled people in the election process braille-enabled voter cards were distributed by Election Commission to visually impaired electors of East Delhi. District Election Officer for East Delhi K Mahesh said there are 276 visually impaired electors out of 5,218 disabled voters in the district. All visually impaired voters are being provided identity cards in Braille.
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Aniruddha Kumar, a 32-year-old professor in PGDAV College got his braille-coded voter card which was distributed by the Chief Election Commissioner at Kashmere Gate in Delhi. These braille-coded voter cards were distributed to visually impaired electors of East Delhi, in consonance with the Election Commission’s aim to make the polls more accessible to the disabled. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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Chief Election Commissioner Ranbir Singh distributes the braille-coded voter card. “First time, East Delhi parliamentary constituency in Delhi took the initiative of issuing Braille-coded electoral photo identity cards to visually-impaired voters,” the Delhi CEO office said in a statement. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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Kavita, an 18-year-old first time voter shows her newly received voter-ID card in braille. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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District Election Officer for East Delhi K Mahesh said, there are 276 visually impaired electors out of 5,218 disabled voters in the district. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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The Delhi CEO office said in a statement that all visually impaired voters are being provided identity cards in braille. Here Kumar poses for a photograph with his voter card. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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People show their special voter ID cards in Braille during an event at Kashmere Gate. Delhi CEO Ranbir Singh Thursday handed out Braille-coded voter cards to some of the few visually impaired electors at his office in Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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