BLO ends life in Gujarat; family says death due to mental stress from SIR duty

A schoolhouse teacher deployed to enactment arsenic a Booth Level Officer (BLO) allegedly ended his beingness successful Gujarat's Gir Somnath territory connected Friday (November 21, 2025), with his household claiming that helium near a enactment citing "mental accent and exhaustion" owed to the SIR of electoral rolls arsenic reasons down the utmost step.

The teacher, Arvind Vadher, died astatine his location successful Devli colony of Kodinar taluka astatine astir 6.30 a.m., an authoritative said.

Vadher was a teacher astatine a authorities superior schoolhouse successful Chhara colony successful Kodinar, and was precocious assigned the work arsenic a BLO for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

In the purported enactment addressed to his wife, Vadher blamed the SIR work for taking the utmost step.

"It is present intolerable for maine to bash this SIR enactment anymore. I person been feeling exhausted and mentally stressed for the past fewer days. Please instrumentality attraction of our son...I don't person immoderate different prime but to instrumentality this step," Vadher purportedly said successful the note.

Gir Somnath Collector and District Election Officer N V Upadhyay said the constabulary are investigating the decease from each the angles.

He said Vadher's decease came arsenic a shocker due to the fact that helium was 1 of the 'top performing BLOs' successful the district, and helium had already finished implicit 40% of his work.

Following the incident, a delegation of Gujarat Rajya Prathmik Shikshak Sangh, an relation of authorities superior teachers, met predetermination officials successful Gandhinagar and made a practice astir issues being faced by teachers moving arsenic BLOs.

On Thursday, a schoolhouse teacher moving arsenic a BLO successful Kheda territory of the State died of a bosom attack, with his household attributing his decease to "excessive enactment pressure" linked to the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.

BLO Rameshbhai Parmar (50), a nonmigratory of Jambudi colony successful Kapadvanj taluka successful Kheda, died of a bosom onslaught successful his slumber astatine his location during the intervening nighttime of Wednesday and Thursday.

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