<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Election Commission of India, ECI, today launched Electors&nbsp; Photo Identity Card, EPIC, with Braille on it to ensure&nbsp; participation of visually impaired persons in the electoral process. <br />''<br />''This innovative card was launched by Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat at the last session of a National Consultation on Accessible Election organised by ECI in New Delhi.</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />''</span>Addressing the Consultation, Mr Rawat urged all election officers to work hard at ground level to ensure that Persons with Disabilities, PwDs could participate in election with utmost ease. <br />''<br />''He said, disability coordinators will be deployed at district level to assist PwDs at the time of election. He also added that the commission will develop a mobile App to educate the persons with disabilities.</div>
News On AIR | July 4, 2018 5:24 PM
ECI launches EPIC with Braille on it to ensure participation of visually impaired persons