Corporation employees go on strike in Belagavi seeking relief from poll duty

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Some employees of the City Corporation went connected a drawback onslaught successful Belagavi precocious successful protestation against their deputation arsenic supervisors implicit Booth Level Officers for the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.

A delegation of employees met Mayor Preeti Kamkar and complained to her that they are already nether stress, arsenic they person been tasked with gross postulation accounts attraction and spot registration, monsoon preparation, census and supervision of alleviation centres and different specified issues.

“Some of america are aged and suffering from illness. Additional load of supervising BLOs volition adhd to this burden,” they said.

Leaders Yallesh Bachchalpuri, Sagar Kamble, B.S. Kolkar, P.R. Patil, L.C. Kalapatri, P.S. Nayak, P.O. Halagekar, B.P. Hoovannavar, G.A. Palkar and others were present.

Meanwhile, officials person said that names of astir 3 lakh voters successful the territory are yet to beryllium mapped. Of the 41.22 lakh electors, names of lone 38.22 lakh person been mapped successful the archetypal round. As galore arsenic 2.9 lakh voters stay unmapped owed to missing oregon incomplete records.

Belagavi North Assembly Constituency has the highest fig of unmapped voters astatine 71,293, followed by Belagavi South with 42,964 voters, taking the numbers of unmapped voters successful the metropolis to 1.1 lakh voters.

Mapping is being done based connected the 2001 electoral rolls and the 2002 voting activities. Those whose parents oregon grandparents names bash not look successful the 2002 electoral rolls are considered unmapped. BLOs are marking names unmapped owed to logical discrepancies similar missing names from the 2002 information base. Similar is the lawsuit of residents who person migrated from Belagavi to different cities for education, employment, matrimony oregon different reasons.

BLOs volition behaviour door-to-door visits betwixt June 30 and July 29. Voters volition beryllium required to taxable immoderate 1 of the 12 documents prescribed by the ECI on with a self-attested declaration form. Those who neglect to supply the required accusation whitethorn beryllium marked arsenic absent. As per the schedule, the draught electoral rolls volition beryllium published connected August 5, objections and claims volition beryllium considered until October 3 and the last elector database volition beryllium released connected October 7.

Published - June 14, 2026 06:38 p.m. IST

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