{"id":3251,"date":"2019-04-02T16:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:13:29","slug":"election-commission-takes-steps-so-that-the-disabled-can-ride-to-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/election-commission-takes-steps-so-that-the-disabled-can-ride-to-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission takes steps so that the disabled can ride to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Election Commission has taken steps to help\ndifferently-abled voters reach polling booths. The EC has decided to provide\npick-up and drop facility to disabled voters in the upcoming Lok Sabha\nelections. <\/li><li>The commission has developed a mobile\napplication named as PWD, using which the voters who have enrolled themselves\nas persons with disabilities (PwD) can inform the ECI in availing the pick-up\nand drop service. The entire cost of pick-up and drop would be borne by the EC.<\/li><li>Under the Election Commission\u2019s Strategic Plan\n2016-2025, greater participation of PwDs in the electoral process has been\nidentified as one of the core objectives. The EC had also declared \u201cAccessible\nElections\u201d as the theme for 2018\u2019s National Voters Day observed on January 25.<\/li><li>The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act,\n2016 also talks about accessibility in voting. It states that that the Election\nCommission of India and the State Election Commissions shall ensure that all\npolling stations are accessible to persons with disabilities and all materials\nrelated to the electoral process are easily understandable by and accessible to\nthem.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission has taken steps to help differently-abled voters reach polling booths. The EC has decided to provide pick-up and drop facility to disabled voters in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The commission has developed a mobile application named as PWD, using which the voters who have enrolled themselves as persons with disabilities (PwD)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/election-commission-takes-steps-so-that-the-disabled-can-ride-to-vote-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Election Commission takes steps so that the disabled can ride to vote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6268,6269],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-accessible-elections","tag-pwd","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704731825},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}