[pib] Voter Awareness Forums for promoting awareness on electoral process

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Mains Paper 2: Polity | Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act

From the UPSC perspective, the following things are important:

Prelims level: VAF

Mains level: Voter Awareness

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Voter Awareness Forums

1. Voter Awareness Forums will be set up in Ministries, Government Departments, Non-Government Departments and other Institutions to promote electoral awareness.
2. Voter Awareness Forums are informal Forums for generating awareness around electoral process through activities like discussions, quizzes, competitions and other engaging activities.
3. VAF is part of the Electoral Literacy Club programme of ECI.

Electoral Literacy Club

1. Launched on the 8^thNational Voters Day, 25^th January 2018, the ELC programme envisages setting up of Electoral Literacy Club in every educational institution.
2. The ECI also aims to set up Chunav Pathshala at every booth to cover those outside the formal education system.
3. The ELCs and Chunav Pathshala activities are conducted by the Convener using a resource Guide where step by step instructions are given for conducting each activity.
4. Separate Resource books have been developed for Class IX, X, XI and XII.
5. A calendar of activities in a year has also be indicated. Total of 6-8 activities, with specific learning outcome, running into approximately 4 hours in all, have been identified for each class.