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Mysore Paints & Varnish Ltd.
Mysore Paints & Varnish Ltd (MVPL) formerly Mysore Lac and Paints Limited owned and operated by the Government of Karnataka., the sole supplier of indelible ink to the Election Commission of India.
The company was by the Maharaja of Mysore, Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar in the year 1937 with the sole aim of preparing lacquer for government and other documents. But in 1972, the company established indelible ink unit used for the sole purpose of elections.
The company is currently working overtime to manufacture a whopping 20,140 litres of unique violet ink and dispatch it in the coming weeks to 28 states and seven Union Territories (Uts) in 10 ml (millilitre) plastic bottles of 7.5 cm size.
It is the only company in India authorised to produce the indelible ink, which is used in the elections to prevent people from voting multiple times.
Estimated to cost the exchequer Rs.120 million (Rs.12 crore) for about two million bottles of 10 ml each, the indelible ink accounts for less than one percent of the total budget of Rs.13 billion (Rs.1,300 crore) to be spent by the government to conduct the general elections this time.
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