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NEW DELHI: As booth level officers protested implicit the work-related accent owed to the ongoing peculiar intensive revision of electoral rolls successful Kolkata, West Bengal main predetermination serviceman Manoj Kumar Agarwal connected Monday said that canvass assemblage has asked the territory magistrates to "assist the BLOs.
"During a property conference, Agarwal was questioned implicit the alleged "work-related stress" which the BLOs are facing amid the ongoing elector rotation purification drive. The CEO said that the canvass assemblage has asked the DMs of 4 districts to postmortem reports of the BLOs who died during the SIR exercise."We are receiving complaints that BLOs are nether unit and immoderate are falling ill. We person asked the District Magistrates (DMs) to assistance them.
There are besides reports that immoderate BLOs person died. We person asked the DMs of 4 districts to nonstop the constabulary and PM (postmortem) reports," Agarwal said."We volition person their reports successful a time oregon two; lone aft that volition we beryllium capable to instrumentality action, and connected that basis, we volition beryllium capable to pass the Election Commission of India that the BLOs died connected work owed to SIR," helium added.Agarwal, however, steered wide from commenting connected the governmental aspects of the contention and said, "Definitely the enactment of the BLO is precise hard.
Because they person to spell to each and each place. They person to cod the forms, springiness the forms, and digitise the forms. It is not an casual task. So BLOs are putting their level champion successful the full thing."This comes hours aft BLOs stages a objection extracurricular the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, protesting against excessive enactment unit nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.The agitating BLOs besides tried to participate the CEO's bureau during their protestation but were stopped by police, prompting a insignificant scuffle.Earlier successful the day, members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee marched from College Street successful northbound Kolkata to the CEO bureau successful cardinal Kolkata. They carried locks and fetters to symbolically seal the main entranceway of the CEO office. After reaching the office, protesters scaled constabulary barricades successful an effort to participate the CEO's premises.The BLOs accused the Election Commission of not addressing their complaints astir the tremendous and inhuman enactment unit during the SIR exercise.The committee besides alleged that BLOs were falling sick and 2 of them died by termination owed to stress.The BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee had earlier announced that para-teachers, assemblage professors and teachers from respective organisations would articulation the march to property for contiguous involution by the Election Commission.House-to-house enumeration nether the SIR began connected November 4 and volition proceed till December 4, with draught rolls scheduled for work connected December 9.The committee warned that if deadlines are not extended oregon corrective steps are not taken, it volition motorboat a continuous protestation programme.Earlier successful the day, main curate Mamata Banerjee had written to main predetermination commissioner Gyanesh Kumar connected this contented and asked the canvass sheet to halt the SIR workout successful West Bengal.The protestation came days aft 2 pistillate BLOs died by suicide, reportedly owed to accent and workload related to SIR, portion different BLO suffered a cerebral attack.The committee warned that if deadlines are not extended oregon corrective steps are not taken by the Election Commission, it volition motorboat a continuous protestation question crossed the state.
