Visakhapatnam: The Vizianagaram district administration has initiated a campaign to raise awareness among tribal people residing in remote villages about voting through electronic voting machines (EVMs) as part of the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) program. Following the instructions of district collector S Nagalakshmi to promote awareness on voting through EVMs, a group of booth-level officers from S Kota Mandal visited Daraparthi, a tribal hamlet. They explained to the people how to cast their votes using EVMs. It is noted that tribal people from surrounding villages gather at Daraparthi for a weekly gathering every Friday. The election team seized this opportunity to reach out to them and create awareness about voting through EVMs. Daraparthi is a hamlet village of Pallapu Dungada, a polling station identified as inaccessible by the district administration for the general elections in 2024.District collector Nagalakshmi said that a total of 1,897 polling stations and two counting centres have been proposed to be set up in the district.