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EVM project to be placed in Tuesday’s ECNEC meeting

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Published: 15:09, 17 September 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
EVM project to be placed in Tuesday’s ECNEC meeting

Staff Correspondent: The project of Election Commission (EC) to purchase and use Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the national parliament election will be placed in the meeting of Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) tomorrow (Tuesday).

On Tuesday last, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said the EVM purchase project will be placed at the next meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council for approval.

The EC on August 16 sent a project proposal to the planning commission titled ‘Purchase, preserve and use of EVM with a view to enhance more transparency in election management’ with a cost of Tk 3,821 crore.

Under the proposed five-year project (July 2018 to June 2023), the money will be spent on purchasing the machines, training concerned officials, introducing voters to the machines through various orientation programmes, and establishing relevant infrastructure.


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