DIMAPUR — Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted a one-day workshop on first level checking (FLC) on electronic voting machine (EVM) and voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) for district election officers (DEO) and deputy district election officers (DDEO) at Hotel Japfu in Kohima on Friday.
The training was conducted in view of the upcoming Parliamentary elections scheduled in 2024.
An update from the Election department stated that the officiating chief electoral officer (CEO), Ruokuovituo Khezhie, delivered the keynote address during the workshop. It mentioned that the DEO and DDEO comprised of FLC-in-charge and FLC supervisors.
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=1]The resource persons of the workshop were Rakesh Kumar, under secretary, and Pawan Bhattar, section officer, both from the ECI. The other resource persons included Tiameren Chang, state-level master trainer for EVM-VVPAT, and Roland Merry, ACEO and EVM nodal officer.
Report stated that presentations on EVM technical and administrative safeguard, FLC process, doubt clearing on entire management and handling of EVM/ VVPAT in election process were conducted by the resource persons.
It added that EVM/ VVPAT engineers from Electronic Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad, led by Adarsh Kumar and Krishnakant Pankaj made presentation on use of pre-FLC unit (PFLCU) before conduct of FLC process and also demonstrated on symbol loading in VVPAT using symbol loading unit (SLU) and hands-on demonstration on EVM and VVPAT.
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