ECI Identify Para-archer And Arjuna Awardee Sheetal Devi As PwD Nationwide Icon

NEW DELHI, Mar 17: The Election Fee of India (ECI) in affiliation with the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) organised an Exhibition Cricket Match between the Indian Deaf Cricket Affiliation (IDCA) Workforce and the Delhi & District Cricket Affiliation (DDCA) staff to foster voter schooling and inclusivity. The match was held on March 16, 2024, at Karnail Singh Stadium in New Delhi. On the event, Ms. Sheetal Devi, a distinguished Para-archer, and Arjuna Awardee, was introduced because the Nationwide Icon within the PwD class.
The occasion was graced by Chief Election Commissioner Shri Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Shri Gyanesh Kumar and Shri Sukhbir Singh Sandhu who felicitated the successful staff. Famend former Indian Cricketer, Nikhil Chopra, was additionally invited because the particular visitor alongside officers from DDCA and IDCA.
This cricket match exemplified the dedication made by CEC Shri Rajiv Kumar to the Indian deaf Cricket staff when he felicitated them for bringing laurels to the nation by successful the T20 Champions Trophy held in UAE, on the eve of Worldwide Day of PwDs in 2022. He had talked about that “ECI will discover the opportunity of sponsoring a match of the Indian Deaf Cricket Affiliation staff with mainstream cricket groups.”
Each groups put up a spirited efficiency to entertain and thrill the gang of 2500 spectators together with Individuals with Disabilities (PwDs) of assorted classes and younger voters, gathered below a brilliant blue sky to benefit from the match. The DDCA staff received by 69 runs (Scorecard- DDCA 190/5; IDCA – 121/8) in a match the place the message of inclusivity and togetherness was the final word victor. The message of ‘Nothing like voting, I vote for certain’ rang loud and true all through the occasion.
It underscores ECI’s dedication in direction of inclusivity and empowerment and can encourage fellow voters with disabilities to enrol and take part within the electoral course of.
The match concluded with a fascinating efficiency by the ‘Shining Star Music Band’- a band that includes the visually impaired.
For the occasion, the Fee launched a devoted Voter’s Information for PwDs and Senior Citizen Electors. The excellent booklet outlines important provisions out there to PwDs and senior residents, together with infrastructural, informative, and procedural particulars at polling stations, in addition to the applicability and process for Postal Ballots, facilitating a easy and pleasurable voting expertise.