Votastra

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About Votor

Votor is the india’s first digital democracy platform. on this platform, citizen can engage with elected representative and the government to be more accessible, efficient, and effective in civic engagement, virtual public complaint, e-legislation, digital panchayat, crowdsourcing, public service delivery, and other political and social processes. 
 

Citizen can register problems concerning their constituency, and make an appointment with their elected representative. This platform is designed to help emerging politician do election campaign, jan darbar, political crowdfunding, constituency management, and party internal voting.   

Votor digital parliament and assembly facilitate government and elected officials to involve their constituency people in legislative crowdsourcing. Furthermore, virtual gram sabha and ward sabha features enhance grassroots democracy.

App Features

1. Virtual Public Complaint

 

Citizen can register problems concerning their constituency to elected representatives and the government.

2. Legislative Crowdsourcing

Elected representatives and ministry can allow citizens to participate in legislative process through Votor Virtual Parliament and Assembly.

3. Digital Panchyat

Gram Sabha members can express their thoughts in local decision-making, which might help to address concerns, policy making, planning, welfare, participatory budgeting, and community-driven initiatives. 

4. Microblogging

Indigenous microblogging is specifically designed for direct engagement between citizens, elected representatives, and government.

5. Election Campaign

Election contesting candidates can do election campaigns, jan darbar, political crowdfunding, constituency management, and party internal voting.

1. Virtual Public Complaint

Citizen can register problems concerning their constituency to elected representatives and the government.

2. Legislative Crowdsourcing

Elected representatives and ministry can allow citizens to participate in legislative process through Votor Virtual Parliament and Assembly.

3. Digital Panchyat

Gram Sabha members can express their thoughts in local decision-making, which might help to address concerns, policy making, planning, welfare, participatory budgeting, and community-driven initiatives. 

4. Microblogging

Indigenous microblogging is specifically designed for direct engagement between citizens, elected representatives, and government.

5. Election Campaign

Election contesting candidates can do election campaigns, jan darbar, political crowdfunding, constituency management, and party internal voting. 

User Benefits

Citizen

  • Seamless communication with politician and the government.   
  • Virtual complaint to elected representative and the ministry. 
  • Take appointment with elected representative without any hurdle.
  • Digital panchayat for inclusive grassroots democracy.   
  • Legislative crowdsourcing through virtual parliament and assembly. 
  • No need to queue up politician home or office for complaint.  

Politician

  • Engage with their constituency people from anywhere.
  • Receive virtual complaint from citizens verified by Voter ID.
  • Conduct digital Jan Darbar for the constituency interaction.
  • Collect public opinions on legislation from the constituency.
  • Carry out election campaign and political fundraising.
  • Perform constituency management and party internal voting.

Panchayat

  • Digital panchayat for inclusive direct democracy.
  • Women’s participation without any hurdles in the panchayat. 
  • Physical presence won’t be required for grassroots democracy. 
  • People do not need to leave work or wages for panchayat dialogues.

Government

  • Seamless public interaction and civic awareness campaign.
  • Receive Jan Prashn? and answer based on artificial intelligence. 
  • Legislative crowdsourcing through virtual parliament and assembly. 
  • Accurate opinion polls & surveys through voter id verified user.   

Citizen

  • Seamless communication with politician and the government. 
  • Virtual complaint to elected representative and the ministry. 
  • Take appointment with elected representative without any hurdle. 
  • Digital panchayat for inclusive grassroots democracy.
  • Legislative crowdsourcing through virtual parliament and assembly. 
  • No need to queue up politician home or office for complaint.  

Politician

  • Engage with their constituency people from anywhere.  
  • Receive virtual complaint from citizens verified by Voter ID.  
  • Conduct digital Jan Darbar for the constituency interaction.  
  • Collect public opinions on legislation from the constituency.  
  • Carry out election campaign and political fundraising.  
  • Perform constituency management and party internal voting. 

Panchayat

  • Digital panchayat for inclusive direct democracy. 
  • Women's participation without any hurdles in the panchayat. 
  • Physical presence won't be required for grassroots democracy. 
  • People do not need to leave work or wages for panchayat dialogues.

Government

  • Seamless public interaction and civic awareness campaign.
  • Receive Jan Prashn? and answer based on artificial intelligence. 
  • Legislative crowdsourcing through virtual parliament and assembly. 
  • Accurate opinion polls & surveys through voter id verified user.   

Citizen

Problem

1. Citizen writes letter on various issues to elected representatives, but these letters are ignored or solution delayed due to communications gap.    

2. Civic engagement platforms often lack formalization and structure, which hinder people's willingness to participate in the decision-making process. 

3. Certain segments are unable to participate in the grassroots democracy because they must be physically present in the panchayat.   

Solution

1. Citizen can take appointment with elected representative. and report issues related to water, sanitation, drainage, potholes, or any other kind of public service delivery.  

2. People can contribute opinions in actual legislation process through Votor virtual parliament and assembly. Apart from this, citizen can participate in grassroots democracy through digital panchayat.  

1. During election, politician visit door-to-door to listen people's complaint.

2. After winning the election, people are dizzying to politicians.

3. Online complaint is beneficial for both people and politician.

1. During election, politician visit door-to-door to listen people's complaint.

1. During election, politician visit door-to-door to listen people's complaint.

2. After winning the election, people are dizzying to politicians.

2. After winning the election, people are dizzying to politicians.

2. After winning the election, people are dizzying to politicians.

3. Online complaint is beneficial for both people and politician.

3. Online complaint is beneficial for both people and politician.

Politician

Problem

1. It is widely recognized that when politician is bundled with various responsibilities as an elected representative, it becomes complicated for them to maintain regular engagement with their constituency. This leads to lack of trust between politician and people.

2. No single App specifically built for politician to directly express their thoughts to the constituency and work on people's concern, welfare, and development.

3. Nowadays, election campaign has become a difficult task. It is not easy to attract voters even after spending a lot of money, resources, and time. 

Solution

1. Votor facilitates emerging politicians to receive public complaints, give appointments to people, take public opinions on legislation, election campaign, jan darbar, political crowdfunding, constituency management, and party internal voting.  

2. Virtual constituency improves accessibility for elected members who live distant from the constituency. We enable them to communicate with their constituency people regardless of their physical whereabouts. 

Elected Representatives

Problems

Elected representatives receive offline complaints from their constituency, but due to the large number of complaints, it’s not easy to work efficiently and on time.

Solution

VotorApp offers elected representatives to receive online public complaints and work on complaints as per their preferences with an AI-enabled dashboard.

Election Contesting Candidates

Problems faced by election contesting candidates.

Solutions for election contesting candidates.

Panchayat

Problem

1. Women usually abstain from participating in the panchayat due to people's conservative mindset and masculine ideology in indian society.   

2. People are very busy in their own lives. So, they do not want to leave work or wages for panchayat dialogues. Even some people stay far from the panchayat and are not able to physically present.   

Solution

1. Virtual panchayat offers addressing concerns, policy making, planning, welfare, decision-making, participatory budgeting, and community-driven initiatives to enhance grassroots democracy. It engages women's participation in the panchayat without any hindrance.     

2. Virtual discussion facilitates those who are incapable of participation in the panchayat. We enable them to do meaningful interaction, dialogue, and collaboration in the panchayat regardless of their physical whereabouts. 

Problem

Fewer people are participating in Gram Sabha.

Solution
VotorApp offers digital panchayat discussion.

Government

Problem

1. Ministry faces many problems in collecting maximum number of people's concerns and questions, due to lack of systematic digital system and civic awareness.    

2. India has largest population in the democratic world, so it's not an easy task for the government to receive public opinion on legislative crowdsourcing.    

Solution

1. Votor allows ministry to receive public grievances and questions. This is enabled with artificial intelligence to optimize functionality as per preferences.

2. Government can take crores of people live opinions to understand public supremacy on introduced bill in the parliament and assembly, and they can decide to support the public decision in actual legislative bill. 

Upcoming Footprints

250000+ Panchayat

5000+ Municipality

4123
Assembly Constituency

543 Parliamentary Constituency

200+ Ministry

50+
Political Party

Upcoming Footprints

250000+
Panchayat

5000+
Municipality

4123
Assembly Constituency

543
Parliamentary Constituency

200+
Ministry

50+
Political Party

About Founder

Mr. Vishal Raj, the founder of Votor, is a young democracyist and democratic entrepreneur. He has completed master’s in political science from University of Delhi. Regarding his experiences, he had positions as an executive officer at University Grants Commission, an election campaign manager, a social science educator, and a founder and director of a coaching institute.

Since January 2022, he has focused on the project Votor, conducting extensive fieldwork in north indian panchayats, addressing public issues, collaborating with political and social organizations, considering opinions, and conducting research and analysis. His work includes developing prototypes, gathering data, and making future project strategies.

Mr. Vishal Raj

Founder & CEO

Founder's Inspiration

Mr. Vishal Raj has observed that despite frequent Gram Sabhas being held in the panchayat, participation from Gram members is often low due to various reasons. This gives the impression that direct democracy is practiced, but citizen participation is quite low. So, this does not show actual grassroots democracy. It’s not people’s fault today, because people do not have sufficient time for themselves. then how can they devote physical presence to the direct democracy system. If they had a virtual panchayat, then it would be better for citizen, local representative, and the panchayat development.  

Vishal Raj witnessed a person trying to meet their elected officer to obtain a signature for his child’s admittance to the school. However, the elected officer hasn’t met because of physical absence in the constituency. This caused that man to lose wages, time, and transportation costs. Politicians are with the people during elections but would rather remain in the nation’s or state’s capital after the polls. Because of this, the general population believes that their elected officer has deceived them. If we look from the politician’s point of view, parliament and assembly are in the capital, then how can politicians resolve public complaints by remaining in their constituency. Vishal Raj noticed many problems and thought to develop a civic engagement platform which can be favourable for citizen, government, and elected representative. 

About Founder

Mr. Vishal Raj

Founder & CEO

Mr. Vishal Raj, the founder of Votor, is a young democracyist and democratic entrepreneur. He has completed master’s in political science from University of Delhi. Regarding his experiences, he had positions as an executive officer at University Grants Commission, an election campaign manager, a social science educator, and a founder and director of a coaching institute.

Since January 2022, he has focused on the project Votor, conducting extensive fieldwork in north indian panchayats, addressing public issues, collaborating with political and social organizations, considering opinions, and conducting research and analysis. His work includes developing prototypes, gathering data, and making future project strategies.

Founder's Inspiration

Mr. Vishal Raj has observed that despite frequent Gram Sabhas being held in the panchayat, participation from Gram members is often low due to various reasons. This gives the impression that direct democracy is practiced, but citizen participation is quite low. So, this does not show actual grassroots democracy. It’s not people’s fault today, because people do not have sufficient time for themselves. then how can they devote physical presence to the direct democracy system. If they had a virtual panchayat, then it would be better for citizen, local representative, and the panchayat development.  
    
Vishal Raj witnessed a person trying to meet their elected officer to obtain a signature for his child’s admittance to the school. However, the elected officer hasn’t met because of physical absence in the constituency. This caused that man to lose wages, time, and transportation costs. Politicians are with the people during elections but would rather remain in the nation’s or state’s capital after the polls. Because of this, the general population believes that their elected officer has deceived them. If we look from the politician’s point of view, parliament and assembly are in the capital, then how can politicians resolve public complaints by remaining in their constituency. Vishal Raj noticed many problems and thought to develop a civic engagement platform which can be favourable for citizen, government, and elected representative. 

VOTASTRA CIVIC TECH PRIVATE LIMITED
CIN: U62099DL2024PTC429994

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Come with us to bridge the gap between citizen, representative, and the government. We can build an inclusive civic engagement platform together.

  • office@votastra.com

Send us your resume for job and internship opportunities. 

  • hr@votastra.com

VOTASTRA CIVIC TECH PRIVATE LIMITED
CIN: U62099DL2024PTC429994

Contact Us

Come with us to bridge the gap between citizen, representative, and the government. We can build an inclusive civic engagement platform together.

  • office@votastra.com 

Send us your resume for job and internship opportunities. 

  • hr@votastra.com

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