ELECTORAL LITERACY CLUB
GOVERNMENT GENERAL DEGREE COLLEGE, MANGALKOTE
The Electoral Literacy Club (ELC) has been set up at Government General Degree College, Mangalkote in 2018. The ELC was set up with Dr. Raj Kumar Singh, Officer-in-Charge, GGDC, Mangalkote as the Chairman, Mr Sk Sahafur Hoque, Assistant Professor of Political Science, GGDC, Mangalkote as the Convener cum Nodal Officer, Ms Madhumita Chakraborty, Assistant Professor and Head, Dept of Political Science, as the Joint Convener cum Nodal Officer, and all regular students of the college as members. The ELC has been functional since 2018 and several programmes have been conducted under the initiative of the club. The Electoral Literacy Club, Mangalkote can be said to be representative in character because: it has as its members, all collegiate students of the institution who represent divergent socio-economic and religious backgrounds.
The first programme to be organized by the ELC of GGDC, Mangalkote was on 25.09.2018 and it was to increase awareness among the students regarding the importance of voting as a basic function of democracy. The awareness programme was conducted by the teachers of the political science department and they were instrumental in encouraging the students to enrol themselves as responsible voters. The evolution of the voting process was also explained to them in the form of the reforms of the Election Commission. The second initiative of the ELC included a sensitization camp which dealt with a host of topics: poll process, the concept of NOTA, use of VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail), taking pledge for free and fair elections among others. the first programme was attended by 77 students, whereas the second sensitization programme was attended by 54 students.
The Electoral Literacy Club was reconstituted in 2023 with Dr Pradipta Kumar Basu, Officer-in-Charge, Government General Degree College, Mangalkote as the Chairman, Ms Madhumita Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Ms Tinat Rukshana, Assistant Professor in Political Science as the Conveners cum Nodal Officers. Electoral awareness camps were organized by the Electoral Literacy Club and the Students’ Affair Committee of GGDC, Mangalkote on 31/01/24, especially for the sensitization of the new voters on the occasion of National Voters’ Day
A Voters’ Awareness Camp was also organized by the Electoral Literacy Club together with the Seminar and Workshop Committee of GGDC, Mangalkote on 01/03/24, and the theme of the camp was Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation.
