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SILCHAR: Cachar DC Keerthi Jalli along with Election Officer, Navanita Hazarika held a press conference on the ECI voters awareness contest at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Wednesday. Addressing the media persons, DC Jalli said, "Election Commission of India on the occasion of National voters day, 2022 launched a voter awareness contest with a theme ' My vote is my future : Power of one Vote' to reiterate the importance of every vote through creative expression. Under Election Commission of India's SVEEP (systematic voter's education and Electoral participation), voters awareness contest taps in to talent creativity of the people while strengthening democracy through their active involvement."
While elaborating on the contest, Jalli said, "There are five categories of contest, which include quiz, slogan, song, video and poster making. The idea behind arranging quiz contests is to engage with inquisitive minds to gauge the awareness level of participants regarding the electoral process of the country. There will be 3 levels, easy, intermediate and difficult of the contest in addition to that all participants will receive an e-certificates."
"Participants will have to weave words in to catchy slogan on the given theme to inspire others for slogan contest, the song contest is aimed at harnessing the talent and creative minds through a medium of song in any form including classical, contemporary and rap etc or they can share or create original compositions on the given theme. Video making contest provides an opportunity to all camera lovers to create a video that celebrates the diversity and festivity of elections in India. The video shall be made with one minute duration only. The entries for video, slogan and song can be made in any official language as per 8th schedule of Indian constitution. In poster design contest the participants would create thought-provoking posters on the contest theme," mentioned DC Jalli.
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