For the upcoming Assembly elections, the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka has placed the order for indelible ink from the State-run Mysuru Paints and Varnish Limited here.
The company has been asked to supply 1,32,000 vials of ink of 10-ml quantity and 20,000 packets of sealing wax for the elections, said MPVL chairman H.A. Venkatesh.
He told reporters here on Saturday that the order is estimated to cost ₹2.06 crore.
Mr. Venkatesh also said the company is expecting an order from the Election Commission of Malaysia for the supply of 1,00,000 bottles of indelible ink, which is estimated to cost ₹8 crore.
The company had recently supplied 794 indelible ink marker-pens to the State Election Commission for the elections of some cooperative societies. He said the company had set ₹12 crore as revenue target and got ₹10.69 crore in 2017-18.
Out of it, ₹5 crore of indelible ink had been exported to Cambodia, Mangolia, Papua New Guinea and Malaysia in 2017-18.
The remaining ₹5.69 crore of indelible ink had been supplied to recent elections in Gujarat, local body elections in different States and the Assembly polls in the north-eastern states.
The company, for the first time, had supplied 1,000 specially designed ballot marking pens to the Presidential polls last year.
Also, 389 specially designed ballot marking pens had been supplied to the legislative council elections in Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, he said.
