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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission connected Saturday doubled the remuneration for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) from Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000 per predetermination cycle. The determination besides includes an summation successful wage for BLO supervisors, whose remuneration has been raised from Rs 12,000 to Rs 18,000."The electoral rotation machinery, consisting of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), BLO Supervisors and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) bash a batch of hard enactment and play a pivotal relation successful mentation of impartial and transparent electoral rolls. The Commission has truthful decided to treble the yearly remuneration for BLOs and besides enhanced the remuneration of BLO Supervisors progressive successful the mentation and revision of electoral rolls," the EC said done a statement.
The past specified revision was done successful 2015, the EC noted.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has formed a seven-member nationalist coordination squad to oversee the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and place immoderate discrepancies, arsenic good arsenic code issues faced by BLOs nationwide. The committee volition beryllium led by BJP nationalist wide caput Tarun Chugh, with members Dr K Laxman, K. Annamalai, Om Prakash Dhankhar, Alka Gurjar, Dr Anirban Ganguly, and Jamyang Tsering Namgyal.
The committee has commenced tract visits arsenic portion of its review. On Saturday, Dr Anirban Ganguly visited Nadia territory successful West Bengal, his location state, to measure the advancement of the revision exercise. The sheet volition proceed monitoring West Bengal, wherever elections are scheduled adjacent year, and the BJP aims to situation three-term Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress until December 1. The reappraisal of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands has already been completed.The determination comes amid reports of respective BLOs committing termination oregon dying nether unnatural circumstances during the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls successful 12 states, including Kerala, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.Last week, BLOs clashed with constabulary portion attempting to participate the Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) bureau successful Kolkata during a protestation implicit alleged excessive enactment pressure. According to a elder official, members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee held a procession from College Square successful northbound Kolkata, carrying locks and fetters to symbolically seal the main entranceway of the gathering lodging the CEO’s office.
