Jalore: Kerala cadre IAS officer Raju Narayanaswamy’s efforts to increase voter turnout in Rajasthan’s Jalore district became a huge success. A major part of the voters in this district are traders outside Rajasthan.
Raju Narayanaswamy was the election observer in Jalore. The district administration under the leadership of Raju Narayanaswamy created social media groups with the help of people residing outside Jalore. Through continuous video calls the administration to persuaded them to come back to vote.
They also released a pamphlet named ‘Kunkuma Patrika’ in Hindi requesting people outside the state to come back to cast their votes. Raju Narayanaswamy also instructed all BLOs to make video conference calls and Zoom meeting to all people in their respective booths who are staying outside the state. This task was relatively easy as the number of people staying outside the state were limited per booth. People took an e-pledge that they will return to poll their vote were taken. E-certificates were given to those who took the pledge.
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Dr. Raju Narayanaswamy has performed election duties in 16 states across the country- including in naxal affected areas such as Jharkhand and border areas of the country. He was also the International Observer in the 2018 Zimbabwe Elections. In 2012 UP Election, he was the Roll Observer for Kanpur Division and was in charge of six districts.
Dr. Raju Narayana Swamy has penned 31 books. His writings include the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award winning Travelogue: ‘Shantimanthram Muzhangunna Thazhvarayil’ as well as ‘Neelakkurinji : Oru Vyazhavattathile Vasantham’ which won him the Kunjhunni award. He had also published more than 240 research papers in law and technology.
In 2021, he won the acclaimed Leonardo da Vinci Fellowship instituted by the Center for Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy, George Mason University in the USA. He won this prestigious fellowship for his scholarship in intellectual property law. Swamy was awarded the 2018 Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award by IIT Kanpur for his professional integrity in upholding human values. He also won the prestigious Homi Bhabha Fellowship (in cyber law).
After passing B.Tech from IIT Madras in computer science and engineering, Swamy obtained a PG Diploma from the National Law School, Bangalore and LLM from NLU Delhi- both with gold medals. He also holds a Ph D in law from the Gujarat National Law University.
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