The Election Commission will contact the migrant labourers of Jharkhand and motivate them to vote. The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand will send bulk messages on the mobile numbers of migrant labourers of the State and encourage them to vote in the general election 2024.
Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar today directed the labour department officers to provide the data of migrant labourers to the Commission as soon as possible in a meeting with the Labour Department in the Election Commission office here on Thursday.
Labour Department officials said that the data of 1 lakh 70 thousand migrant labourers of Jharkhand is available with the department. The mobile numbers of all the migrant labourers are also available.
The CEO said that migrant labourers will be motivated to participate in the election festival and vote by sending bulk messages on their mobile numbers.
The CEO also asked the Home Department officials that they should contact various private security agencies and motivate the personnel engaged to vote.
The Home Department officials said that they have the data of 416 security agencies. They will send letters to these agencies by speed post informing them about the Commission's intention and will ask them to motivate the migrant workers working there to vote.
The CEO asked the officials to motivate the security agencies to participate in the voting by giving paid leave to the employees under the RP Act.
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