Mumbai: Maharashtra Assembly elections will be held on October 13 and this time the school children are also looking forward to cast their vote.
Class VIII student Komal Parikh is excited as she will be voting for the first time. She is a part of a mock poll organised by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Navi Mumbai.
Over 50 schools will be participating in the poll which aims at educating the youngsters about the elections.
Navi Mumbai saw only 42 per cent polling in the Lok Sabha Elections and the education committee hopes the mock poll for the kids will encourage their parents to cast their vote.
“If children tell their parents that they voted then the parents who don’t vote might want to vote,” says St Mary school (Koparkhairane) teacher Vijaya Bhaskar.
While adults queue up at polling booths on October 13 to cast their votes, the children will be doing it on the website.
“Today it is in Navi Mumbai but soon it will reach to the other parts of Mumbai and then to the whole of India,” says Chairman of Education Committee Navi Mumbai Municipality Corporation, Ravi Iyer.
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