110 Year Old Women casts Vote through Home Voting facility at Shopian

SHOPIAN, MAY 07: On the first day of Postal and Home Voting in the district for the 02-Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency, today a 110 year old female voter of Shopian Assembly Segment exercised her franchise.
The voter, residing at Therin Kandi in Tehsil Keller casted her vote through Home Voting Facility, facilitated by the District Administration, Shopian subsequent to guidelines of Election Commission of India in the direction of ensuring Inclusive Participation of voting process.
The Home Voting Facility commenced throughout the Shopian assembly segment of the Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency wherein senior citizens and specially-abled voters, numbering 185 shall exercise their franchise, in a process monitored by election machinery of ECI and district administration with proper magisterial, observer and security arrangements.
Similarly, a Postal Voting Centre was also set up at Shopian to facilitate Postal Voting of essential service staff, who were not earlier able to cast their vote due to their election day duties. A total of 586 voters shall cast their vote during the three day period.
DEO Shopian, Faz Lul Haseeb also visited areas to oversee the process.