ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will have to pay Rs250 million despite the alleged collapse of the newly-developed state-of-the-art Result Transmission System (RTS).
The electoral commission would still have to pay Rs170 million to the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) while presiding officers will get Rs80 million.
The ECP on Thursday had sent a letter to the Cabinet Division directing it to conduct an inquiry into the failure of its Result Transmission System (RTS) during the conduct of general elections on July 25.
According to a letter sent to the Cabinet Division, the ECP directed the Cabinet Division to constitute an inquiry committee comprising experts from National Telecommunication and Information Technology Security Board (NTSB) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and finalise the inquiry report within one month.
According to the terms of reference (TORs) of inquiry, the committee will thoroughly analyse RTS, fix responsibility for its failure and also make recommendations for a future course of action.
Earlier, an official of ECP while finalising the reasons of failure of RTS (Results Transmission System) on July 25 (Election-2018) said that it is an international practice that any system been introduce is practised before launching but due to a shortage of time RTS could not be tested.
He also said that it was the demand of parliamentarians to launch and practice RTS in election 2018. Now ECP was analysing the reasons behind the failure of RTS and share the findings with the media.
The official added: “For the first time an online system to share results from 85,000 polling stations around the country to the central headquarters in Election Commission of Pakistan was introduced.”
The commission, he said, was investigating those complaints where results on a piece of plain paper were released instead of the ECP’s-issued Form-45. Sufficient copies of the forms were available with the commission, he added.
