Cachar District Administration will provide free transportation facility to Senior citizens & PWD voters on poll day

Deputy Commissioner Cachar, Keerthi Jalli made this remark on Wednesday while sharing her reaction on arrangement of free transportation facility to the senior citizens and PWD voters on poll day by the District Administration Cachar.

Jalli said, “We have seen that a lot of retired citizens are staying in Silchar and so we have come up with this initiative. Similar help is also being given to Senior Citizens in rural areas through BLOs and Social Welfare Department. I Would request people to use this and ensure their right to vote”.

Its worth mentioning that to avail this facility senior citizens and PWD voters have to call to the numbers given against their ward number with their voter id card number (EPIC card number), residential address, ward number along with polling station details and particular time of voting on the poll day at a specific time they want to caste their votes.

All 28 wards of Silchar are divided in to 4 groups. Senior citizens and PWD voters of ward number 1 to 7 to contact the number 7002509414. Similarly, for ward number 8, 9, 10, 12 ,11, 22, 23, senior citizens and PWD voters are to contact at 8638382166. For ward number from 24 to 28 ,19, 21 senior citizens and PWD voters are to contact in this number 9954995763. For ward 13 to 20,the senior citizens and PWD voters were asked to contact at 9435143770.