New Delhi: Model polling stations in Delhi might have promised to make voting a pleasant experience but they have failed to meet up the expectations of voters due to lack of wheelchairs for the disabled and elderly and clean toilets.
The model booth in Laxmi Nagar near V3S Mall had a green carpet and few chairs. And most of the chairs at Trilokpuri were occupied by cops leaving the voters standing, said a report published in the leading English daily. A voter wondered whether a carpet, decoration with flowers and a few chairs what a model polling station is about.
Polling stations in north Delhi too failed to provide adequate seating arrangements with elderly and disabled voters were seen waiting in queues outside the booths.
Differently-abled voters in polling station in BB Block Shalimar Bagh were forced to bring wheelchairs from their homes.
It was a similar situation in Krishna Nagar, from where the BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi is contesting.
However, model polling stations in south, west and central Delhi scored high in terms of dedicated waiting lounges, wheelchairs and freshly-painted interiors and exteriors.
The concept of a model polling station was first introduced in the December 2013 assembly polls.
