Over 7,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) arrived here today from Bihar, for the coming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, a senior official said.
A total of 7,522 EVMs and 4,000 Control Units have been kept in safe custody in the office of Deputy Director of Health here, District Collector, Archana Patnaik said in a release.
Four engineers from Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and 20 officials from Election Department would carry out a preliminary inspection of the devices till February 19, she said.
The machines were brought from West and East Champaran, Khagaria and Nawada districts of Bihar in 12 vans with full security, Archana said.
