Lok Sabha Question No. 3079 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-13
Subject: Data on Voters with Disabilities
Ministry: LAW AND JUSTICE
Asked by: Shri Azad Kirti Jha

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3079

## TO BE ANSWERED ON FRIDAY, THE 13th DECEMBER 2024

## Data on Voters with Disabilities

3079. Shri Azad Kirti Jha:

Will the Minister of LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the data on voters with disabilities who voted from polling booths in elections is collected across the country, State-wise;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reason therefor;
- (c) the number of polling booths manned by persons with disabilities in the last general election, State-wise and all State elections in the last three years; and
- (d) the number of grievances received by the Election Commission on the Saksham Portal for inaccessible polling booths in the last general election?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE; AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS

## (SHRI ARJUN RAM MEGHWAL)

- (a): The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed that no such data is collected.
- (b): Not applicable.
- (c): The ECI has provided the requisite data which is annexed at Annexure A.

(d): The ECI has informed that on saksham portal, 32 complaints were received related to poll day during the last General Election to Lok Sabha 2024 and none of them were related to inaccessible polling booths.

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## The number of polling booths manned by persons with disabilities in the last General Election, Statewise and all State Elections in the last three years

| State / UT                             |   In Lok Sabha GE | In State Elections (Last 03 Yrs.)   |
|----------------------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh                         |                59 | 37                                  |
| Arunachal Pradesh                      |                03 | 03                                  |
| Assam                                  |                23 | Not Applicable                      |
| Bihar                                  |               230 | Not Applicable                      |
| Chhattisgarh                           |                90 | 90                                  |
| Goa                                    |                08 | 09                                  |
| Gujarat                                |                33 | 33                                  |
| Haryana                                |                76 | 76                                  |
| Himachal Pradesh                       |                28 | 37                                  |
| Jharkhand                              |                48 | 46                                  |
| Karnataka                              |               224 | 224                                 |
| Kerela                                 |                06 | Not Applicable                      |
| Maharashtra                            |               265 | 253                                 |
| Madhya Pradesh                         |               166 | 170                                 |
| Manipur                                |                03 | 01                                  |
| Meghalaya                              |                01 | 00                                  |
| Mizoram                                |                01 | 00                                  |
| Nagaland                               |                04 | 03                                  |
| Odisha                                 |                84 | 84                                  |
| Punjab                                 |               104 | 71                                  |
| Rajasthan                              |               200 | 200                                 |
| Sikkim                                 |                01 | 00                                  |
| Tamil Nadu                             |                03 | Not Applicable                      |
| Telangana                              |               120 | 120                                 |
| Tripura                                |                60 | 44                                  |
| Uttar Pradesh                          |               317 | 40                                  |
| Uttarakhand                            |                70 | 06                                  |
| West Bengal                            |                30 | Not Applicable                      |
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands              |                00 | 00                                  |
| Chandigarh                             |                05 | Not Applicable                      |
| Delhi                                  |                07 | Not Applicable                      |
| Dadar & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu |                03 | Not Applicable                      |
| Jammu & Kashmir                        |                85 | 93                                  |
| Ladakh                                 |                02 | Not Applicable                      |
| Lakshadweep                            |                00 | 00                                  |
| Puducherry                             |                01 | 00                                  |