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Gurugram: Women make up just one-third of the total voters in the 18-19 years age group in Haryana, data released by the Manohar Lal Khattar government earlier this week has shown...
Of the 3,43,908 voters in this age group registered with the Election Commission of India (ECI) from Haryana (as on 22 January, 2024), 2,30,544 are male, 1,13,346 are female, and 18 are transgenders...
This time we had an assistant electoral officer from the education department in the districts whose duty was to create awareness among students in schools and colleges, he said.. Agarwal added that societal attitudes towards registration of women as voters can be gauged from the fact that among those selected by the Haryana government for incentives as first-time voters, was a woman aged 53, while several others were in their 40s...
The poor child-sex ratio must be manifesting in the voter registration now because the children of that time are eligible voters now, Sangwan said.. Professor Urmila Sharma, director, Women Studies Centre, SGT University, Gurugram, said that though the Haryana government launched the Beti Bachao Beti Padho campaign to save and educate daughters, the time has come when society itself should come forward to ensure that women were treated equally...
Meanwhile, Reicha Tanwar, former director of the Centre for Gender Studies at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, said: I am wondering if many women of that (18-19) age group have not registered as voters given the mindset in rural Haryana..
