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Ramps, wheelchairs missing for senior citizens, disabled

<p>These facilities were nowhere in sight and most of the centres in the Parvati constituency had no volunteers to assist the elderly and differently-abled persons who had come to cast their vote</p>

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The unpreparedness of polling booths in the city were felt the most by senior voters and differently-abled persons who came to exercise their franchise at the designated centres yesterday. Schools in the Bibwewadi area of Parvati constituency were selected as polling centres.

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Frustrated: The administration yet again failed at providing facilities for the elderly and differently-abled, making it difficult for them to get to the polling booth at ease. Pics/Shashank Sane

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