Team Herald
MAPUSA: As part of its “Making Democracy Work” Campaign, the GOACAN has launched initiative to mobilise young voters to attend and participate in the gram sabha meetings of the village panchayats across the State.
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The GOACAN volunteers from various civic and consumers’ forums will approach sarpanchas of different panchayat to issue welcome letters to all youth from the village who have received their voter cards as new voters.
This initiative was launched by GOACAN on National Voters Day with focus on distributing draft welcome letters to the sarpanch of the village panchayats with an appeal to issue the same to all the new young voters.
The welcome letter informs the youth that being on the electoral roll as a voter automatically makes them members of the village panchayat gram sabha. This entitles the youth to attend and actively participate in the four ordinary meetings of the gram sabha which will be held in month of April, July, October and January during the financial year April 2021 to March 2022 and four special meetings which will be held on August 15, October 2, December 19 and January 26.
The letter seeks the assistance of the new young voter in the activities of the various committees of the village panchayat on subjects like Road Safety and Traffic Management, Biodiversity Management and Health and Sanitation among others.
The letter also encourages the new young voter to assist the Village Development Committee of the village panchayat which has the challenging task of preparing the Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP).
Lastly, the letter reminds the new voters that the youth of today are the future of the village and appeals to them to extend whatever assistance they can provide especially their knowledge, skills and time for the development and progress of their village.
This 60-day initiative of GOACAN will carry on till the convening of the first gram sabha in April for 2021-22.
