City needs over 9,000 EVMs,state 90,000

Pune district will need a little more than 9,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs),a tenth of the 90,000 the state would need for the civic and Zilla Parishad polls.

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Pune district will need a little more than 9,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs),a tenth of the 90,000 the state would need for the civic and Zilla Parishad polls.

Mumbai,Thane and Nashik will also hold elections,while 27 Zilla Parishads will go to polls,too. The state has only 25,000 EVMs and the state election commission has approached Hyderabad-based Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) for 65,000 EVMs.

According to state election department officials,Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC),with 25 lakh population,will have 3,200 polling stations,PCMC with 11 lakh population will have 1,500 polling stations and Zilla Parishads will have 4,400 stations. Each polling station will definitely have one EVM and there would be a few extra ones.. At least 10 per cent machines are kept in reserve in case of any faulty machines. We would require that extra number for each of polling station, said the official.

The commission has sent a request and we are hoping to get a reply by Monday, said the official. There is a demand to conduct counting of the Zilla Parishad,PMC and PCMC polls the same day.

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