Mysore/Mysuru: Today being International Women’s Day, two Pink Vaccination Booths, exclusively for women, were set up at the District Hospital on KRS Road and at Bannimantap Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Hanumanthanagar. Both the booths saw women arriving in large numbers to get themselves vaccinated against COVID-19. The District Hospital alone witnessed nearly 90 women…
Selfie Zones, Pink Booths to woo voters
April 3, 2019Mysuru: This Lok Sabha polls will be a more inclusive one with the Election Commission of India (ECI), through district-level Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Committee, aggressively wooing voters including women, tribals, new voters and the general electorate both from urban and rural areas. The ECI is on a mission to ensure wider…
Sakhi: Special PINK BOOTHS
May 11, 2018Mysuru: The Election Commission and the District Administration have set up special ‘Sakhi’, or ‘Pink’, polling booths for the election. These special booths will be staffed entirely by women – from the presiding officers to the micro-observers and security personnel. This is being done to attract more women to vote. The security deployed at such…
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