According to the ministry, the initiatives have been taken in response to requests from innovative technology companies and startups.
The voter turnout for the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls was the highest ever at 67.11 per cent across 542 constituencies. Polling was cancelled in Vellore.
This is the first time that transgenders voted under the category since the Supreme Court had declared them as "third gender" in 2014.
"The timings are from 7 am to 6 pm. People can come in the morning to cast their votes. They (EC) will face logistical problem (if timings are advanced)," the bench told advocate Mohammad Nizamuddin Pasha who had filed the petition.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj were among those who cast their vote.
"Nobody has turned up to vote till now," ANI quoted polling official of booth number 41 as saying on Thursday which also happens to be the day when polling for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 is underway.
Nearly 15.8 crore voters will seal the fate of 1600-odd candidates in 95 Lok Sabha constituencies across 11 states and one Union Territory.
Residents of Digothi and Lodal villages in Tehri district did not vote saying they did not get a road and other facilities.
Noida, which is part of the Gautam Buddh Nagar parliamentary constituency, will go for polls on April 11 in the first of the seven-phased Lok Sabha election.
He further said that his mantra is "hum do, hamare do, sabke do" (Only two kids for every couple) irrespective of caste or religion or economic status.
The state had an electorate of 7,70,395, which included 3,94,897 female voters. There were 209 candidates, 15 of them women, in the fray.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, BJP candidate from Budhni seat, and his wife Sadhana Singh cast their votes at his native village Jait, a part of his Assembly constituency.
According to the final electoral roll, the state has 5,04,95,251 voters – 2,63,01,300 males, 2,41,30,390 females, 1,389 third gender and 62,172 postal electors.
MP Polls 2018: Around 7.7 lakh voters will decide the fate of 209 candidates.
Justifying his statement, Ramdev further stated this is a national issue and that Hindu scriptures mention the need to have 10 kids when there was slow population growth.
Polls in the state were organised amid boycott calls by the National Conference and the People's Democratic Party
The state will vote for municipal body polls after 13 years. The last poll were held in 2005. The five year term of the elected body ended in February, 2010.
All arrangements were made by the election authorities for the JNUSU polls, which were closely watched in the aftermath of various controversies that rocked the universities across the country in the recent past.
DUSU polls 2018: The polling in the morning colleges started at 8 am and will end at 1 pm, while in evening colleges, it will be held between 3 pm and 7.30 pm.
According to the Election Commission, 3,459 candidates are contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly, while 8,396 candidates are running for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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