Polling booth officials trained to fix snag in EVMs and VVPATs

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, Oct 28: The upcoming Assembly elections are all set to be hassle-free as faulty electronic voting machines will no more disrupt polling process. Keeping in view frequent reports about EVMs and VVPAT machines catching snag on polling day, the district administration has already empowered the election officers deployed at every polling booth with the technical knowhow. In the event of EVMs and VVPATs not functioning properly, the election officers will be pressed into repair duty on the spot without waiting for the technicians to arrive and troubleshoot the situation, sources said.

Sources said the district administration has already provided training to block development officers (BDOs) and circle officers (Cos) on troubleshooting. State level master trainers Gautam Kumar and Amarendra Kumar imparted the training at Jamshedpur Collectorate.

Sources said all Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) and Sector Magistrates are being informed about the technical knowhow related to EVMs and VVPATs.

In view of the upcoming state Assembly elections, a training programme is going on for all polling duty personnel. The training of Presiding Officers and First Polling Officer is going on at Jamshedpur Cooperative College. The training of Second and Third Polling Officers is being held at Bharat Sevashram School. The training programme would be held in three phases. It will continue till 21^st November. Around 5000 election duty staff will be trained across the district.