ECI Sets Up Special Polling Booths For Kashmiri Migrants In Delhi

In order to facilitate Kashmiri Migrants residing in Delhi to cast their votes in person for the Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has established special polling booths for the community at different locations in the national capital. 

These polling booths have been established at Kashmir Resident Commission, 5 PR Road New Delhi, Kashmir Kissan Ghar BR-2 Shalimar Bagh Delhi, Arwachin International Public School Pocket F, Dilshad Garden, Delhi and GGSSS Paprawat Najafgarh, Delhi. The Election Commission of India, in a first, has instructed for providing free of cost to and fro transportation facility for the Kashmiri Migrants KMs eligible to cast their ballot in these special booths. The transport service will be provided to KMs from the camps to their respective polling stations and back to camps. 

With an aim to extend requisite support and help to



the Kashmiri migrant voters, the office of AERO/ARO, Migrants, New Delhi, is efficiently functioning during the working hours at Pota Cabin 01 at JK House 5-Prithvi Raj Road, New Delhi. The office has also established a help desk which has supported numerous stakeholders to file offline/online Form-M, Form 12-C and other requisite documents. 

Besides, a series of camps and meetings have been organized to raise mass awareness at various places to increase the percentage of Kashmiri migrant voters in the capital. As per the data given by the AERO/ARO office, about 169 voters have been registered besides receiving 65 Form M and 4 Form 12 C for the Baramulla PC, 480 voters have been registered besides receiving 183 Form-M and 8 Form 12-C for the Srinagar PC while 95 voters have been registered besides receiving 40 Form M for the Anantnag PC, till date.