8 JUNE2023INFOCUSINFOCUSThe number of seats in the state where women voters outnumber men has increased to 112 or 50 percent of the total seats in the 224 Karnataka Assembly constituencies, according to the recent electoral rolls data. The figures for the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections were 67 or 30 percent.The rural areas of Karnataka hold the most number of voters in the 112 seats which is spread across 28 of the 34 districts of the state. These districts are, Bagalkot, Bangalore Rural, Belgaum, Bellary, Bijapur, Chamarajnagar, Chikkaballapur, Chikmagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Devangere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagaram, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Vijayanagara, and Yadgir.The states have seen a sudden rise in female voters across the region in the last five years. The number of female voters per every 1000 male voters has increased, rising from 973 to 989.There are 2.67 males and 2.64 female voters who will be voting in the upcoming elections on 10 May.The Mahadevapura seat records the lowest gender ratio of voters that is 858 females per 1000 males whereas Mangalore City South records the highest that is 1,091 females per 1000 male voters.Overall, 140 seats have more number of gender ratio voters than the state's average of 989 seats. WOMEN VOTERS OUTNUMBER MEN IN 50 PERCENT OF KARNATAKA CONSTITUENCIES AGNIVAHINI, VEDANTA ALUMINIUM'S ALL-FEMALE FIREFIGHTING TEAM REACHES 100 MEMBERSThe largest aluminium producer in India, Vedanta Aluminium, announces the addition of 100 new members to its Agnivahini firefighting squad in advance of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. This exceptional group of female employees has received significant training in the challenging but essential skill of fighting fires.The squad will strengthen fire incident prevention and mitigation methods at the company's activities in Jharsuguda, which is home to one of the biggest aluminium smelters in the world, in collaboration with the fire safety team.The business has also created a new, concrete symbol of its stance that all professional jobs, whether technical or non-technical, should be based on skill rather than gender. The Agnivahini training program, which began in 2018, has officially accepted its sixth group of qualified firemen. Women employees are urged to volunteer for the project, where they get intensive training over the course of three months.Members of the Agnivahini teach people in the Jharsuguda area about fire safety, therefore raising their level of preparedness.Sunil Gupta, CEO of Vedanta Limited in Jharsuguda, highlighted the initiative's effects by saying, "At Vedanta Aluminium, safety and health at work remain among our top priorities. We are committed to continuously recalibrating our approach and introducing new, innovative practices to provide a safer and healthier work environment for all of our employees and business partners. We are pleased to have trained more than 100 female firemen as part of the "Agnivahini" project, a fantastic result of our endeavour. Our risk mitigation plans and techniques have developed along with our operations, keeping up with best practices throughout the world and setting new standards."Through this procedure, extensive safety protocols were introduced. Additionally, 240 employees were trained, and they were given the title of "Safety Standards Champions" to promote implementation.The largest producer of aluminium in India is Vedanta Aluminium, a division of Vedanta Limited, which produced 2.29 million tonnes of aluminium in FY23, more than half of the country's total production. It is a leader in the development of added-value aluminium products, which are crucial in important industries.
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