‘Ghar Aaja Pardesi’ name amid rising concern over much less voter turnout
Amid rising issues over much less voter turnout within the first part of polling on April 19, the Jaunpur district administration on Wednesday began calling voters who’ve migrated for jobs and better research, or different functions.
Jaunpur District Justice of the Peace Ravindra Kumar Mandar speaking to a migrant . (HT photograph)
In a 21-second video on X, district Justice of the Peace of Jaunpur Ravindra Kumar Mandar is seen conversing with one of many migrants and convincing him to return to his residence to train his electoral energy within the sixth part on Might 25. The Jaunpur district authorities have named this marketing campaign as ‘Ghar Aaja Pardesi’.
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The query arises whether or not this effort might encourage different UP districts which sends bigger variety of migrants to different states.
In keeping with Census 2011, Uttar Pradesh has the biggest variety of inter-state migrants which is round 12.32 million (1.232 crore). Although no concrete knowledge is accessible for the variety of migrant staff from totally different districts in UP.
However the knowledge collected by the state authorities throughout pandemic outbreak in 2020 when the migrants returned to their hometown exhibits — Maharajganj district in Gorakhpur division acquired a most of seven.11 lakh migrants, which was additionally the very best within the state. Inside Gorakhpur division, Maharajganj was adopted by Gorakhpur with 50293 migrants. Different districts which acquired bigger variety of migrants are Prayagraj (1,38,311), Sant Kabirnagar (99,941), Mau (97,073), Bahraich (91,956), Balrampur (88,522), Siddharthnagar (83,451) and Basti (82,000).
Out of prime 10 divisions in Uttar Pradesh the place most variety of migrants returned, seven had been in east UP and Bundelkhand area, together with Gorakhpur division which acquired as many as 838313 migrants, Devipatan division (2,72,905), Basti division (2,65,392), Prayagraj division (2,50,946), Ayodhya division (2,45,403), (2,25,112), Varanasi division (1,40,208), which included Jaunpur, and Chitrakoot division (1,15,760).
Retired IAS Awanish Kumar Awasthi, who’s presently working as chief advisor of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, mentioned it’s certainly an excellent initiative by Jaunpur district administration to extend the voter turnout.
He mentioned the election fee additionally promotes such initiatives underneath their flagship program SVEEP (Systematic Voters’ Training and Electoral Participation).
He mentioned different districts in Uttar Pradesh which ship much more migrants to different states might replicate the initiative.
Jaunpur extra district Justice of the Peace (ADM Finance and Income), RA Chauhan mentioned the initiative is a brainchild of the district Justice of the Peace to encourage the migrant staff to return residence and solid their votes. He mentioned the administration has established a management room from the place they’re reaching out to migrant voters daily and motivating them to return to their residence for polling.
One other official mentioned that the management room workers was armed with a listing of cellular numbers obtained from native gram panchayats and attempting to attach with migrant staff who’ve left Jaunpur. “Many migrants are expressing their willingness to return for the upcoming election,” he mentioned.
“The crew has been skilled to successfully talk with the migrants. They’re well-versed in Hindi and a few of them are fluent in Bhojpuri, a regional language spoken in Jaunpur,” he added.
Migration, that takes electors away from their properties, remained one of many causes for much less voter turnout. Although electors can have their names added to the electoral rolls of the constituency they reside in, however many select to retain the voter ID from their residence constituencies for varied causes.
