Workshop on “Grassroot Democracy and Voter Awareness” conducted at Bomdila

A Correspondent

BOMDILA: Under his chairmanship, Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer (DEO), Panchayati Raj, Sonal Swaroop conducted a one-day workshop on “Grassroot Democracy and Voter Awareness” here on Monday. The awareness was conducted to impart awareness on electoral process and grassroot level democracy to ex-PRI members, public leaders and members of various NGOs and community based organizations.

Resource persons spoke of various topics like local self government, evolution of PR and municipality in Arunachal Pradesh, role of State Election Commission, model code of conduct, rights of voters and duties and responsibilities of political parties and media.

DC Swaroop while addressing the workshop said that, “It is important to know roles, responsibilities, powers and function of local bodies at grass root level. Empowering one provides you with a tool to perform your duties better”.

She also requested all the public leaders and representatives to disseminate the knowledge obtained during workshop among the local people of their villages for better awareness generation.

The workshop was attended by administrative officers, HODs of various departments and GBs, ex-PRI members and public leaders of West Kameng district.

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