Street play, awareness programme on voter list revision held in city

October 5, 2012

Mangalore, October 5: An awareness programme on the process of revision of voter list process which is being undertaken in the district as per the directions of the Election Commission, was held in Mangalore on Friday.

Dr. N S Chennappa Gowda, Deputy Commissioner, DK, inaugurated the students' jatha at Nehru Maidan. The programme aimed at urging people to register themselves in the voter list, was held under the joint aupices of Mangalore University College, District Information Officer, Department of Kannada and Culture, Department of Education and Nehru Yuva Kendra.

A street play by Girish Navada and team was staged at University College auditorium. Dr. Laxminarayana Bhat inaugurated the formal programme at Ravindra Kalabhavana of the College.

Dr. Dayanand Nayak, Lecturer, said that voting is a tool which citizens can use in eliminating corruption from the country. Youth have a big role to play in this regard, he said.

Ravichandra Nayak, Tahshildar, MV Venkatesh, Assistant Commissioner, Mangalore revenue sub-division, and others were present.