SVEEP Awareness Programmes help Highest Turnout for Voting in District – DC Hephsiba Rani
Udupi: The massive SVEEP awareness programmes taken up by the district administration has helped in the highest turnout for voting in the district said Deputy Commissioner Hephsiba Rani Korlapati.
Speaking at a press meet held at the DC office on April 24 evining she said that the district had recorded 78.51% polling in the Assembly elections held in 2019. No untoward incidents were reported and overall the elections were peaceful. The Byndoor Assembly constituency which is part of the Shivamogga Lok Sabha constituency recorded a polling of 77.66%.
In the four Assembly segments of Kundapur, Kaup, Udupi and Karkala, the voter turnout was 75.91%, while in Byndoor it was 75.23 %. The whole of Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha constituency recorded 75.91% polling. When compared to 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the voter turnout had risen by 1.45%, she added.
Elaborating over the polling percentage in Sakhi polling stations, the deputy commissioner said that the 40 Sakhi polling booths in the district had recorded 72.05% polling, wherein 26,930 voters of the total 37,374 had cast their votes.
Emphasising on the ethnic polling booths, Korlapati said that there were three such booths in the district, which had recorded 80.59% of polling.
She said that four tender votes and one challenge vote was cast in the district.
As many as 9,54,030 voters used the EPIC to cast their votes while 1,94,670 voters used one of the 11 documents permitted by the election commission to exercise their franchise.
The excise department seized 15,921 liters of liquor while the police department seized 11.70 liters of liquor since the model code of conduct came into force.
cVigil applications had received 273 complaints and 48 complaints were found to be fake. 211 cases were disposed of within 100 minutes of receiving the complaints.
Replying to the query on sand mining DC said that tenders would be invited for sand mining in non-CRZ areas at the earliest.
“The relaxation in tender conditions, permitted by the screening committee headed by the chief secretary, will be implemented during the pre and post tendering stages,” she said.
Sand mining in CRZ areas needed permission from the Karnataka Coastal Zonal Management Authority (KCZMA).
Responding to a query on the impending water crisis in the district, Korlapati said that a meeting has been called on Thursday, April 25 to review the water crisis.
Officials have been directed to submit a proposal for de-silting the Baje reservoir and other canals, rivers, ponds, which are a source of drinking water. The work will begin shortly, she added.
Udupi Superintendent of Police Nisha James was also present.