Live
- BJP plans campaign against Cong govt
- Be lifelines to public & render best, cops told
- Siri 2.0: Apple's Advanced AI Assistant to Be Released in 2026
- Senegal ruling party wins parliamentary majority: Provisional results
- BJP flags plight of primary school
- Sensex surges 855 pts despite geo-political tensions, PSU bank stocks shine
- ED likely to question some Dubai-based Indians in Bengal ration scam case
- Minor quake hits Manipur's Bishnupur district
- BJP's Bihar leaders huddle at Union Minister Giriraj Singh's Delhi residence
- 10 Maoists gunned down in encounter with security forces in Sukma
Officials to create awareness on functioning of EVMs
District Collector R V Karnan on Monday directed officials of departments concerned to create complete awareness on the functioning of electronic voting machines and VVPATS keeping in view the upcoming Assembly elections
Khammam : District Collector R V Karnan on Monday directed officials of departments concerned to create complete awareness on the functioning of electronic voting machines and VVPATS keeping in view the upcoming Assembly elections.
He was addressing a constituency wise training session for the district level master trainees to understand the functioning of voting machines and VVPATs at Pragna Conference Hall in Khammam.
The District Collector explained the functioning of voting machines and VVPATS to the officials through power point presentation. He said that the BHEL and ECL companies manufactured the EVMs and VVPATs using advanced and modern technology and these machines cannot be hacked or tampered with. To remove certain doubts in the people’s mind regarding voting machines, awareness programmes must conducted in every village and locality of each constituency across the district, he added.
Through VVPATs the people can know to which candidate they voted for along with the serial number of the candidate; his name and symbol along with date and time of voting to the candidate. The voter can see such details for a period of seven seconds through VVPATs and later the slip with that details will be dropped in the VVPAT drop box automatically which is sealed, informed the Collector.
The inspection of voting machines and their functioning will be done under the supervision of well trained engineers, added the Collector. He further added that the officials who are deployed for the election duty must check settings of ballot units along with the details of the candidates who are contesting in that particular constituency.
Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officer Marapaka Nagesh, District Agriculture Officer Jhansi Lakshmi Kumari, District Education Officer Madan Mohan and Master Trainees of five constituencies of the Khammam district attended the meeting.
