Electoral Literacy Club


Vision & Misson


Vision
Originating in integrated civic and voter education and electoral participation right to make its ut most contribution to have an active democratic citizenry from a youngage.
Mission
To educate the targeted populations about voter registration, electoral process and related matters through handson experience. To familiarize the targeted populations with EVM and VVPAT and to educate them about robustness of EVM and integrity of the electoral processusing EVMs. To help the target audience understand the value of their vote to ensure that they exercise their suffrage right in a confident,comfortable andethical manner.

About Club

Electoral Literacy Club (ELC) has been established at the college level targeting the new voters, (in the age group of 18-21 years old) pursuing their graduation. ELC acts as a platform to promote electoral literacy to the students in the age group of 18-21 through interesting activities and hands-on experience and sensitise them on their electoral rights and familiarise them with the electoral process of registration and voting but in an apolitical, neutral and non-partisan manner.

At ELCs, learning meets fun. Activities are designed to stimulate and motivate students provoking them to think and ask questions. Through ELC, the college aims at strengthening the culture of electoral participation among young and future voters.The activities have been carefully designed to impart specific learning which will help them become an ‘Empowered (Prospective) Voter’.


Objectives and Functions


  1. To educate the students about voter registration, electoral process and related matters through hands on experience.
  2. To facilitate Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) familiarization and education about the robustness of EVM as well as the integrity of the electoral process using EVMs.
  3. To help the target audience understand the value of their vote and exercise their suffrage right in a confident, comfortable and ethical manner.
  4. To facilitate voter registration for its eligible members who are not yet registered


Constitution


  1. The club would be run by an elected body from amongst the ELC member students with elected representatives from each of the classes.
  2. The committee members can only be students who are already enrolled as voters.
  3. The committee must not include any politically active student.
  4. The elected representatives shall constitute the Executive Committee of the ELC.
  5. The elected representatives will elect one of the representatives as its Chairman and another as Vice Chairman.
  6. The Executive Committee, under the guidance, consultation and supervision of the Faculty member will be responsible for organizing the activities of the ELC.

Members


The Institution has the ELC functional with the following members

S.No

Name

Designation

Functional role

1

B. Srikanth Reddy

Assistant professor

ELC Coordinator

2

B.Sushma

Assistant professor

ELC Addnl coordinator

3

A.Saikumar

III ECE Student

Student Representative

4

K.Shiny

III ECE Student

Student Representative

5

K.Arunkumar

II CSE student

Student Representative

6

B.Sadhvik

II CSE student

Student Representative


Events Organized


Orientation

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Voter Awareness

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Ethical

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Awareness

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