At polling booths in housing societies in Pune district, it’s a work in progress

Booth level officers Suvarna Gogawale, Ratnamala Pimpare, and Sangeeta Misal said they hoped this workout would assistance thrust up the voting percentage. Jalindar Singhare, different canvass officer, said this would assistance the electorate. “We consciousness the polling percent would beryllium implicit 60 arsenic astir radical would travel to vote,” said Gogawale.

At Kendriya Vihar Cooperative Housing Society successful Moshi, president Suresh Bhosale said they were approached by canvass officials to instal polling booths wrong the premises. “After a treatment with the members, we agreed. We person 3 polling booths successful our assemblage hall,” helium said.

The nine has astir 1,000 residents arsenic voters and the booths person astir 4,000 radical enrolled to vote. Bhosale said astir 50 per cent of the residents were listed astatine the nine booth for voting portion the remainder were sent to the aged polling booth successful Borhadewadi, astir 5 km away. “It is simply a alleviation that our elder citizens tin ballot wrong their society, but we should person each the voters here,” helium said.

Voting underway astatine KV (Express Photo by Partha Sarathi Biswas)

The Netaji Nagar Cooperative Housing Society astatine Lullanagar is among the 126 polling booths successful the Pune district. The 49-year-old lodging nine has 582 flats crossed 39 buildings, with a voting colonisation of 1900.

Its president Ravindra Mhaskar said voting had been a creaseless process truthful far. “Our efforts person been to scope retired to residents who person flats successful the nine but present enactment elsewhere. At slightest 50 per cent of the residents person moved retired owed to tiny flats here. We person reached retired to several,” added Mhaskar.

Shankar Karasgikar, 82, a retired prof astatine the College of Engineering Pune Technological University, said voting wrong the nine premises was a antithetic experience.

However, each is not good successful different societies successful Pune. At Voyage Cooperative Housing Society successful Moshi, lone 20 per cent of its residents person their names registered astatine the booth there.

Nitik Singh, the spot manager of the lodging society, said they started the process of enrolling voters successful the past 2 months. “All those forms are inactive successful our office. There are mostly outsiders who person travel to ballot here,” helium said.

At Raheja Garden Federation Cooperative Housing Society, Wanowrie, polling booth level serviceman Asha Bhosale guided residents of adjacent societies arsenic they waited to fig retired the booth wherever they could formed their votes.