National census: GBA told not to rope in BLOs; revenue officials to multitask for census, SIR, GBA elections

With the nationalist census opening connected Wednesday, the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has been instructed not to gully those who person been functioning arsenic Booth Level Officers (BLOs) successful the City, arsenic enumerators for the census. BLOs successful the metropolis are drawn from the Education Department and other areas specified arsenic energy utilities and ASHA workers. These BLOs are presently engaged successful elector mapping for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

While corp officials maintain that capable unit person been allotted to each of the 5 metropolis corporations, officials connected the crushed pointed to overlapping responsibilities. Revenue officials, who are handling census-related work, are besides tasked with electoral rotation revisions for the upcoming GBA elections and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), successful summation to overseeing ongoing exercises specified arsenic e-khata processing and taxation collection, each of which person strict timelines. E-khata applications successful Bengaluru are processed wrong 2-5 days, with auto-approval if not cleared wrong 5 moving days. The deadline for last e-khata issuance is generally seven days.