Services of BLOs required during second phase of SIR also, says order

Orders person been issued extending the ‘duty-off period’ granted to booth-level officers (BLO) up to January 22 observing that their services are required till the extremity of ‘claims and objections’ and announcement phases of the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll.

During these phases, the BLOs are “required to undertake timely tract verification and taxable verification reports successful respect of applications received for caller enrolment, deletion, and correction,” Rathan Kelkar, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) and Secretary, Election Department, Kerala government, said successful a December 22 order.

The bid notes that the BLOs are expected to execute the pursuing duties related to SIR; ‘Re-verification of discrepancies successful the forms and cases of ‘unmapped’ voters,’ and serving notices to electors.

They are required to cod notices issued by the electoral registration officers and service the notices connected the elector and get an acknowledgement connected the 2nd copy, arsenic each announcement is issued successful duplicate.

BLOs are besides required to upload the signed 2nd transcript of the announcement done the BLO App. The beingness of the BLO acrophobic is besides mandatory during the hearing, the bid says.