PUNE: It’s tremendous busy time at Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd (MPVL), the only real provider of a product with out which holding elections in India could be extraordinarily troublesome — indelible ink. Having acquired its largest order until date for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, MPVL stated at the very least 70% of the manufacturing was full and the remaining will likely be executed by March 15.



The nation will want 26.55 lakh vials of the marker, at a price of Rs 55 crore, for the elections. One vial of 10mg can be utilized for 700 voters.



Besides the home demand, the corporate has a pipeline of export orders to fulfil as lots of the 60 nations going to polls this yr want the ink for his or her voting processes.

With the variety of voters rising with each election, the demand for indelible ink has been going up. “The order we received from the EC for the 2024 general elections is the largest order so far. We have delivered most vials to the northeast and Jammu & Kashmir. We are now producing the ink for Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana,” stated MPVL managing director Okay Mohammed Irfan.

The firm has obtained a number of requests for the marker vials from different nations and expects extra orders to come back in over the following few months.

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“In the last couple of months, we have fulfilled small export orders from Cambodia, Fiji Islands, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. We are now going to process orders and repeat requirements for Mongolia, Fiji Islands, Malaysia and Cambodia,” stated Irfan.

Each vial prices Rs 174, an upward revision from Rs 160 within the final election. That’s due to the fluctuating value of silver nitrate, a key ingredient.

The firm can be exploring the choice of making marker pens to switch the glass vials containing the ink. The product continues to be in improvement stage.