{"id":300792,"date":"2018-07-26T05:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300792"},"modified":"2018-07-26T05:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:32:18","slug":"vvpats-for-upcoming-2019-elections-to-be-delivered-well-within-time-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vvpats-for-upcoming-2019-elections-to-be-delivered-well-within-time-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"VVPATs for upcoming 2019 elections to be delivered well within time: EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299614 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Election Commission (EC) on July 25 announced that all 16.15 lakh voter-verifiable paper audit trails (VVPATs) for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections &#8220;shall be delivered well within the time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Commission has been consistently and periodically reviewing the status of production and supply of VVPATs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;All VVPATs shall be delivered well within the time required for making pre-poll preparations for 2019 Lok Sabha elections,<\/span>&#8220;the<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement further reads\u201cWhile all required EVMs will be delivered by\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_177051114\"><span class=\"aQJ\">30th Sep 2018<\/span><\/span>, VVPAT deliveries are delayed as the Technical Experts Committee on EVMs appointed by the Commission analyses the technology <\/span>stabilisation<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> issues in the initial batches and incorporates essential design improvements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Even then, due to continuous monitoring at the highest level, including personal visits by the Commission of all the production units, all VVPATs shall also be delivered well before <\/span>end<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> of Nov 2018, well within the time required for making pre-poll preparations,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTill date, 5.88 lakh units have been produced by the PSUs (4.36 lakh by Bharat Electronics Limited and 1.52 lakh by Electronics Corporation of India Ltd), which is 36% of the total quantity to be supplied.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC) on July 25 announced that all 16.15 lakh voter-verifiable paper audit trails (VVPATs) for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections &#8220;shall be delivered well within the time.&#8221; The Commission has been consistently and periodically reviewing the status of production and supply of VVPATs. &#8220;All VVPATs shall be delivered well within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[308,3859],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300793,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300792\/revisions\/300793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}