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Supply of VVPATs and EVMs is on track and not a matter of concern: ECI
New Delhi, Sep 26: The Election Commission of India on Thursday said that they would like to allay any unfounded apprehensions regarding the supply of VVPATs for the Lok Sabha Election in 2019. The Commission is committed to 100% deployment of VVPATs at all polling stations in future General, as well as bye elections to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies.
In order to meet the requirement of 100% VVPATs for all polling stations for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election in 2019, the Commission placed an order of 17.45 lakh VVPATs to Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore and Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad.
Till
date,
9.45
lakh
units
have
been
produced
by
the
PSUs.
Both
PSUs
have
assured
the
Commission
that
the
remaining
VVPAT
units
(8
lakh)
will
be
manufactured
and
supplied
to
the
various
States/UTs
comfortably
before
end
of
Nov
2018.
The
Commission
has
been
consistently
and
periodically
reviewing
the
status
of
production
and
supply
of
VVPATs
with
the
CMDs
of
PSUs,
as
well
as
the
Technical
Expert
Committee
(TEC),
to
ensure
that
the
design,
production
and
supply
activities
of
all
the
units
of
EVMs
and
VVPATs
is
streamlined
and
completed
in
a
time-bound
manner
after
incorporating
the
features
suggested
by
the
TEC
which
is
carrying
out
a
rigorous
supervision
of
the
production
process
and
product
performance.
The
officers
of
the
Commission
are
monitoring
the
manufacturing
and
supply
of
machines
on
a
daily
basis
in
order
to
ensure
timely
delivery
and
pre
poll
preparedness.
The
Commission
has
indeed
enhanced
the
requirement
of
additional
VVPATs
from
125%
to
135%
considering
the
trend
of
failure
rate
of
VVPATs
in
past
elections.
The
Commission
has
estimated
171%
Ballot
Units,
125%
Control
Units
and
135%
VVPATs
requirements
for
upcoming
Lok
Sabha
Elections.
It
may
be
noted
that
in
case
of
any
error
in
VVPAT,
only
VVPAT
is
replaced
with
the
reserve
one,
whereas,
in
case
of
any
error
in
Ballot
Unit
or
Control
Unit
of
the
EVM,
entire
set
of
Ballot
Unit(s),
Control
Unit
and
VVPAT
is
changed,
resulting
in
an
increase
in
requirement
of
VVPATs
than
the
requirement
of
Control
Units
of
EVMs.
It is pertinent to mention that learning from experience of Kairana and Bhandara-Gondiya bye-polls held in May, 2018 where the errors were mainly caused by excessive exposure to illumination in the polling stations, the Commission has adopted the hardware improvement recommended by the Technical Expert Committee to prevent auto shutdown of VVPATs due to excessive light.
It is also pertinent to note that comprehensive and systematic preparatory activities for the Lok Sabha Elections, including the detailed First Level Checking of EVMs and VVPATs have already commenced across various States/UTs and will be completed in an efficient, effective and timely manner. First Level Checks workshops and trainings of polling officials are being regularly conducted by the Commission to minimize EVM/VVPAT failures due to human errors.
It may be appreciated that over the last twenty years, the Election Commission of India has successfully conducted 113 State Legislative Assembly Elections and 03 Lok Sabha Elections using EVMs. Since, June 2017, Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines have also been used successfully along with EVMs in General as well as Bye elections in all State Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies for enhanced voter verifiability. The Commission is fully geared to use VVPATs in all forthcoming elections.
The Election Commission of India is mandated under Article 324 to 329 of the Constitution of India to provide superintendence, direction and control for conduct of elections in accordance with the law in force.
