{"id":2155,"date":"2019-04-04T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzittoday.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:32:29","slug":"meghalaya-to-have-60-all-women-ls-polling-booths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/meghalaya-to-have-60-all-women-ls-polling-booths\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya to Have 60 all Women LS Polling Booths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:left\" class=\"has-drop-cap\"> Shillong | Chief Electoral Officer said that the state is going to have <strong>60 pink polling booths<\/strong>  for the coming Lok Sabha elections.This step is taken to encourage  women and promote women&#8217;s voting in the upcoming lok sabha elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women of Meghalaya actively participate in voting. There&#8217;re <strong>18.92<\/strong> lakhs voters of the state out of which <strong>52% <\/strong>are  women. Last time also 67 all women polling booths were there so this  time there could be atleast 60 said the Chief Electoral Officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[bctt tweet=&#8221;Women voters are equally important,Support Women empowerment?&#8221;]\n\n\n\n<p><br> After the two states-Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat,<strong> Meghalaya will be the 3rd one to set up all women polling station<\/strong>.  There are total  3082 polling station and atleast 1 polling station in  each constituency of Meghalaya will be completely managed and run by  women of the state. This pink polling station will have a presiding  officer, polling officer, micro observers &amp; security personnel.<br>                                 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;<em>There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> Achal Kumar Joti said,&#8221; pink polling  station idea is going to empower women and improve their participation  in the election.&#8221; The lok sabha  elections are going to be for 2 seats in Meghalaya which will held on  April 11 and results are going to be declared on May 23.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> One of the amazing steps that have been taken this time is to introduce <strong>Braille enabled ballot papers<\/strong> for 800 visually impaired electorates for the first time in Meghalaya to ensure wider participation of voters.<br>State officials has also ensured the  accessibility to other kind of disabled people at polling stations.  There&#8217;ll be sufficient supply of electricity in all PS. <br>All kind of efforts have been put together to all over encourage people throughout the state to come and vote<\/p>\n    \t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong | Chief Electoral Officer said that the state is going to have 60 pink polling booths for the coming Lok Sabha elections.This step is taken to encourage women and promote women&#8217;s voting in the upcoming lok sabha elections. Women of Meghalaya actively participate in voting. There&#8217;re 18.92 lakhs voters of the state out of [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/meghalaya-to-have-60-all-women-ls-polling-booths\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}