2025 · Q111
Consider the following statements about Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in India:
- 1The first use of EVMs in a Lok Sabha election was in the year 2004, when EVMs were deployed nationwide.
- 2Votes are recorded in Control Units and VVPATs at exactly the same time.
- 3Two PSUs, namely Bharat Electronics Ltd. and Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. have been engaged by the Election Commission of India to design and manufacture the EVMs.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Indian Polity, Governance and ConstitutionElections
- A1 and 2
- B2 and 3
- C1 and 3
- D3 only
Explanation
Statements 2 and 3 are correct: votes are recorded in the Control Unit and the VVPAT slips print simultaneously, and BEL and ECIL are the two PSUs engaged by the ECI to design and manufacture EVMs. Statement 1 is wrong: EVMs were first used in a Lok Sabha election in 45 parliamentary constituencies in 1999 (per the ECI's own status paper); 2004 was the first election in which they were deployed nationwide. Hence 2 and 3 only.