booth level officer

Kolkata, April 6 – The Kolkata police have registered an FIR against a female member of the Trinamool Congress-backed Booth Level Officer (BLO) Rights Protection Committee for staging a protest outside the office of the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), officials said on Monday.A senior...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 3 – At a time when senior bureaucrats are often perceived as distant and inaccessible, a quiet administrative shift by top election officials is earning widespread praise in Kerala.At the heart of this are Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Kelkar and his deputy, P. B...

Ranchi, March 25 Preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Jharkhand have been accelerated. Chief Electoral Officer, K. Ravi Kumar, on Wednesday held a review meeting with Deputy Electoral Officers of all districts and directed them to complete the pre-SIR...

In anticipation of the upcoming assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal, as well as by-elections in six states, the Election Commission has extended the facility of postal ballot voting to electors aged 85 and above, and to individuals with disabilities.The...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 A school teacher in Bhubaneswar was suspended for alleged dereliction of duty while performing election-related responsibilities as a Booth Level Officer (BLO), according to a notification.Rashmi Sahoo, an assistant teacher at Government High School, Chandrasekharpur...

Kolkata, March 10 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in Kakdwip, West Bengal, approached the state administration on Tuesday after receiving threats from a voter in his area following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, in which his name was removed from the voter list.BLO Manindranath...

Bhopal, March 9 Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh met Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Shrivastava on Monday and submitted a memorandum, alleging that thousands of fake names had been added to the voter list in the Narela Assembly constituency in...

Kolkata, March 5 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. The deceased's family members alleged that they died due to the heavy workload and panic caused by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voter list in the state.According to...

Kaushambi (UP), March 2 The body of a 50-year-old assistant teacher on election duty, who had been missing for the last five days, was recovered from the Yamuna River here on Monday, police said.The deceased has been identified as Krishna Kumar Verma, a resident of Dharampur village in the...

Kanpur (UP), March 1 Apparently upset over being denied leave for his daughter's wedding, a 50-year-old Booth Level Officer (BLO) on Special Intensive Revision duty allegedly died by suicide inside a government primary school in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Sunday.The...