Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) After Ketugram in East Burdwan district of West Bengal, a Booth Level Officer (BLO) in the state’s Hooghly district, on Thursday, served a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing notice to his wife. Rajshekhar Majumdar, a resident of Ward No. 1 of Tarakeshwar Municipality, is the BLO for booth number 248 of the Tarakeshwar Assembly constituency in Hooghly district.On Thursday, a hearing notice has been issued in the name of Rajshekhar’s wife, Susmita Majumdar. As the BLO,…
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Panaji, Jan 11 (IANS) Admiral Arun Prakash (retd.) on Sunday expressed his anguish over the inconvenient scheduling of his and his wife’s appearance in election offices on two different dates as part of the SIR of electoral rolls in Goa. The 82-year-old former Chief of the Naval Staff, in a post on X, also brought to the notice of top Election Commission of India officials the need to relook at the SIR forms’ format, which, despite three visits by the BLO to his home, could not be filled to …
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Another Booth Level Officer (BLO) has died in West Bengal’s Malda district, with her family alleging that excessive work pressure linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls led to her death.The deceased has been identified as Samprita Chowdhury Sanyal (48), an Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) worker who was serving as a BLO at booth number 163 in ward number 15 of English Bazar Municipality. She died early Wednesday morning at he…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 (IANS) The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Kerala on Monday dismissed a news report published in a section of media on Sunday that alleged excessive workload on a young female Booth Level Officer (BLO), terming it “misleading” and an “exaggeration” of facts related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.The clarification comes in the wake of a viral news segment which claimed that a female BLO was under sev…
Kolkata, Dec 29 (IANS) A booth-level officer (BLO) in coastal Hingalganj of North 24 Parganas district has allegedly received life threats from close associates of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan after a ‘doubtful voter’ was served a notice for a hearing during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The incident pertains to booth number 190 at Pukuria village, where BLO Pralay Mandal detected serious discrepancies in an online enumeration form su…