UNITED STUDENTS - An Initiative by People's Action
Lets together make a difference...

United Students, a Delhi University based neutral group would be working on various issues in the coming months and requires active participation from all of you. If you are ready to go out in the open and make a difference, contact any of our coordinators who will further guide you.

United Students has been already campaigning for issues like Reservations,Jessica Lall and Priyadarshini Mattoo Case,RTI,Campus security etc.

Currently we are campaigning for the registration of Voter ID Cards in DU.

Since the organisation is volunatry, time commitment is flexible.

Regards,

For Further Details Contact :-
Dhruv Suri - dhruvsuri@gmail.com
Aaditya Dar - aadityadar@gmail.com
Nikhita Arora - nikhita_arora@yahoo.co.in
Aditya Raj Kaul - adityarajkaul@gmail.com
Devika Mallik - devika_malik@yahoo.com


United Students -

E-mail - unitedstudents.india@gmail.com

Website - www.unitedstudents.tk

United Students @ ORKUT
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=13038478

UNITED STUDENTS @ Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/united_students/

Blog - www.unitedstudents.blogspot.com

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Voter registration drive in Delhi University
Prashant Pandey
The Hindu,Friday, Aug 18, 2006

AWARENESS DRIVE: Members of United Students at the launch of voter registration campaign for students in the Capital on Thursday. Photo: Anu Pushkarna

NEW DELHI: In a unique initiative to make newcomers to Delhi University aware about their voting rights and help them in getting their voter-identity cards, United Students -- a student group of Delhi University -- started a voter registration drive on the North Campus on Thursday.

Students who have turned 18 but do not have a voter ID card yet will be targeted during the drive.

Several groups of United Students went round the North Campus making students aware about the need to have a voter ID card. The students will also be provided Form No. 6, as prescribed by the Election Commission, to apply for the card and then submit it along with their identity and residence proofs. The group members would then segregate the applications as per constituencies and deposit the applications in the offices concerned. The students are supposed to follow it up after that.

Aditya Dar, one of the group members, said the plan was to both educate and enthuse students who were not yet registered as voters to immediately do so on the spot. Another member said there were about 40,000 new entrants to the University and the entire chunk was the target of the drive.

United Students is also planning to campaign for temporary voting rights for the outstation students at Delhi University who were staying in hostels or paying guest accommodations.

"They are residents of Delhi for the term of their college and, as such, must be given the right to exercise their franchise in the municipal, State and General Elections. They also face problems as they do not have permanent residence status here," said Nikita Arora, another group member from Kirori Mal College.

"We are also trying to ensure that students having local guardians are provided this facility as well," she added.

To attract more and more students towards the drive, United Students are using ice-cream carts, dubbed "Voter ID Cart", to go round various colleges of the University and hand over Form 6 to students.