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The Votekormi and BLO Aikya Mancha (Election unit and Booth Level Officer United Forum), West Bengal State Committee, connected Saturday (November 22), demanded that their colleagues who died portion performing duties of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of the elector rotation beryllium fixed higher compensation.
While filing a deputation connected behalf of the BLOs of West Bengal, the association’s wide secretary, Swapan Mandal, said that the State government’s ₹2 lakh compensation for the on-duty deceased BLOs is “disrespectful and inadequate.”
“Many authorities employees gain much than this. The State authorities indispensable springiness higher compensation truthful the household of the deceased tin beryllium cared for,” Mr. Mandal added.
At slightest 3 BLOs successful West Bengal person died during the door-to-door enumeration signifier organisation and postulation process. Two of them died by suicide, and 1 died nether unnatural circumstances.
After the 3rd decease connected Saturday, the Trinamool Congress enactment came down heavy connected the SIR process. “How galore much request to dice for this SIR?” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked. According to a termination enactment shared by Ms. Banerjee connected her societal media, the deceased BLO, Rinku Tarafdar, blamed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the unbearable enactment pressure.
After Ms. Tarafdar’s death, the BLO Association connected Saturday filed a deputation with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, and raised aggregate concerns. One of the concerns was astir alleged unit from Electoral Registration Officers (ERO) to decorativeness enactment earlier time. The different interest was implicit the deficiency of an edit enactment connected the BLO app, which is making the digitisation of the SIR forms harder, erstwhile the uploading process itself is taking 10 minutes arsenic the website server remains slow.
“Each BLO is filing truthful galore information forms each azygous day, astir of america are moving nether utmost stress. Some quality errors are bound to happen. We request to beryllium capable to edit the data. Why was the edit enactment abruptly removed? We request that it beryllium brought back,” Mr. Mandal said.
As per information shared by the CEO, WB bureau connected Saturday, astir 41.20% of the enumeration forms person been digitised till now.
On aggregate occasions successful the past month, BLOs crossed the State person reported utmost enactment pressure. They had besides asked for a deadline hold connected digitisation of enumeration forms, which is expected to beryllium completed by December 4. They person besides antecedently held protests extracurricular the CEO bureau to protestation against the “unmanageable workload”.
