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LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2019
Persons with Disabilities
(STATE/UT WISE)
Legal Provisions/ Guidelines
Ensuring Accessible Elections
As per the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 (Statutory Rules and Order), rule 49N
is about recording of votes of blind or infirm electors.—(1) If the presiding officer Polling station wise mapping of PwD Electors
is satisfied that owing to blindness or other physical infirmities an elector is unable Special awareness and registration drives
to recognize the symbol on the balloting unit of the voting machine or unable to Sensitization modules in all poll training programmes
record his vote by pressing the appropriate button thereon without assistance the Availability of list of candidates in accessible format
presiding officer shall permit the elector to take with him a companion of not less Exclusive polling booths for PwD in places where they reside in large
than eighteen years of age to the voting compartment for recording the vote on his numbers
behalf and in accordance with his wishes:
Pick and drop facility on poll day
Provided that no person shall be permitted to act as the companion of more than
one elector at any polling station on the same day: Separate queue for Persons with Disabilities
Provided further that before any person is permitted to act as the companion of Priority voting to Persons with Disabilities
an elector on any day under this rule that person shall be required to declare that Braille EPICs for visually challenged electors
he will keep secret the vote recorded by him on behalf of the elector and that he Postal Ballot Facility for Persons with Disabilities
has not already acted as the companion of any other elector at any other polling Braille on EVMs and Braille Ballot Paper
station on that day.
Entrance door of polling station to be kept wide open and adequate
space to be ensured around voting compartment for wheelchair movement
Assured Minimum Facilities such as ramp, accessible toilets, tactile
signage, and more at all polling stations
PwD App for assistance and information
Sabah and Farah, a pair of conjoined twins had cast their vote for
first time in Bihar Assembly General elections 2015 as a single
voter on single voter identity card with name inscribed as Saba
Farah. For the first time, the conjoined sisters were recognized
as separate persons by the Election Commission of India and
were able to cast their independent votes. The sisters’ courage,
enthusiasm and zeal was laudable.
T18.1 Number of PwD Electors
State Name PwD Electors State Name PwD Electors
Uttar Pradesh 9,61,046 NCT of Delhi 40,532
Bihar 6,17,891 Uttarakhand 38,183
Odisha 5,57,569 Himachal Pradesh 37,852
Andhra Pradesh 5,21,029 Puducherry 16,967
Telangana 5,13,762 Tripura 11,879
Madhya Pradesh 4,75,853 Manipur 7,752
Rajasthan 4,04,540 Karnataka 6,830
Tamil Nadu 3,96,743 Nagaland 6,269
West Bengal 3,36,091 Goa 5,768
Maharashtra 3,06,327 Meghalaya 4,864
Gujarat 1,68,054 Mizoram 3,442
Kerala 1,35,753 Arunachal Pradesh 3,394
Chhattisgarh 1,30,599 Chandigarh 3,157
Jharkhand 1,23,106 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 2,042
Punjab 1,11,197 Sikkim 2,042
Haryana 1,04,534 Dadra & Nagar haveli 854
Assam 63,446 Daman & Diu 680
Jammu & Kashmir 47,052 Lakshadweep 383
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