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In all Tamil magazines it was written as Sujatha (Rangarajan)
The EVMs were commissioned in 1989 by
Election Commission of India in collaboration with
Bharat Electronics Limited,
Bangalore[SUP]
[10][/SUP] The Industrial design (Product Design) of the EVMs were done by Professor A G Rao and Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty members at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay.[SUP]
[11][/SUP] The electronics of the EVMs was done by BEL Bangalore.
In 1980, Mr. M. B. Haneefa designed the first Indian voting machine, gazetted "Electronically operated vote counting machine" (Gazette: 191/Mas/80, 15 October 1980). His original design was exhibited to the public in six Government Exhibitions of Tamil Nadu, viz.: Madras (Chennai), Trichy, Coimbatore, Salem, Madurai and Tirunelveli. Remarkably, the voting machine was designed using only Integrated Circuits.
EVMs were first used in 1981 in the by-election to
North Paravur Assembly Constituency of
Kerala for a limited number of polling stations (50 polling stations).[SUP]
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Election Commission on 19 January 2012 ordered
Electronics Corporation of India Limited and
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) to make EVMs that will generate a "paper trail" of the vote cast.
BEL CMD Anil Kumar said:
"The new EVMs' paper trail should make the poll process safer and tamper-proof.
No where I could see the appreciation for EC in any paper or from any politicians
Prof.D.V.R.Rajakumar