India
India
India
FORMAL EDUCATION:
EDUCATION CURRICULA &
EXTRA CURRICULA
Dr. Chandra Bhushan Kumar
Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi
ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA
INCLUSIVE
• GETS REGISTERED AND
PARTICIPATES
INFORMED
• UNDERSTANDS THE VALUE OF
ELECTIONS
ETHICAL
• FREE FROM INDUCEMENTS
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Electoral Literacy
and Multiple Forms in Schools
Formal Education:
curricula and extra-curricula
Chapter 1:
Constitution: Why
and How? (pp.
4,12-16,18)
Chapter 3: Election and
Representation (pp.
51-77)
Do you know when the last Assembly
election was held in your state? Which
other elections have taken place in your
locality in the last five years? Write down
the level of elections (National, Assembly,
Panchayat, etc.), when were they held and
the name and designation (MP, MLA, etc.)
of the persons who got elected from your
area. Why do we need elections?
Sankalp Patra
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VOTER’s PLEDGE IN SCHOOLS
• “We, the citizens of India, having abiding faith
in democracy, hereby pledge to uphold the
democratic traditions of our country and the
dignity of free, fair and peaceful elections, and
to vote in every election fearlessly and
without being influenced by considerations of
religion, race, caste, community, language or
any inducement”
Campus Ambassador
Facilitating the voter registration by providing forms and guiding
how to fill forms both manually and on-line and co-ordinating with
the election machinery for approval of new applications, correction
and distribution of voter cards to the campus electorate
Organizing special drive for registration i.e. correction of errors,
transposition of names, voting process and ethical voting with the
help of local Election office
Creating core team of students to work as volunteers for the
SVEEP activities in the campus
Organizing talk/workshops etc. for capacity building in voter
education among student community
Organising National Voters’ Day programme in their campus
World’s Largest Rangoli in Uttar Pradesh: Created by more than 770 students
The largest rangoli, 190,000 sqft in area and a mammoth map of India using 240,000 candles
were among the high visibility activities taken up in Bulandshahr to motivate people to vote in the
elections
Edutainment for students
challenges opportunities
Thanks a lot