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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt clears decks for paper trails in all EVMs

Govt clears decks for paper trails in all EVMs

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published Published on Apr 20, 2017   modified Modified on Apr 20, 2017
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The government cleared the decks for a fully paper trail-based parliamentary poll on Wednesday, with the Union Cabinet approving release of funds to the Election Commission for procuring 16.15 lakh voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) units in time for the 2019 general election.

The expenditure of Rs 3,173 crore on the VVPATs will be split over two financial years, 2017-18 and 2018-19. If the EC places the order this month, the machines will be delivered by September 2018, well in time to ensure that all electronic voting machines have VVPAT units in the next general election.

The decision comes at a time when many opposition parties including BSP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have cast doubts on EVMs being tamper-proof.

AAP chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has even alleged that the polls in Punjab, UP and Uttarakhand were rigged by tampering the EVMs, and demanded that only VVPATs be used in future polls.

Briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting, finance minister Arun Jaitley said VVPATs would bring more transparency in the voting process. "Voters have a right to know if their votes are correctly registered or not," he said.

EC, which has been relentlessly pursuing the matter with the government since 2014, said it would closely monitor the production of VVPATs for timely delivery well before the 2019 general elections. VVPATs will be manufactured by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL) as per the design approved by the commission based on recommendation of the technical experts committee on EVMs, comprising professors from IITs.

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The Times of India, 20 April, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/govt-clears-decks-for-paper-trails-in-all-evms/articleshow/58271050.cms?from=mdr


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