India, Aug. 12 -- The state election commission (SEC) in Maharashtra has placed an order for purchasing 50,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Madhya Pradesh state election commission for renting an additional 25,000 EVMs which will be used during the upcoming local body polls.
The SEC is planning to hold elections to 687 rural and urban local bodies across Maharashtra in three phases after Diwali, and around 150,000 EVMs would be required for the exercise, as per estimates of SEC officials.
"The 50,000 EVMs ordered from the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) can be used for polling in multi-member wards," said Dinesh Waghmare, state election commissioner.
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