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Two teachers-cum-Booth Level Officers (BLOs) tasked with conducting a voter database survey for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) died of "illness" successful Raisen and Damoh districts of Madhya Pradesh connected Friday (November 21), officials said.
Relatives and friends of the deceased teachers-cum-BLOs, however, blamed dense workload and unit to conscionable enumeration targets arsenic the reasons for the deaths.
Separately, a BLO has been missing for the past six days successful the Raisen district, and efforts are underway to hint him, officials said.
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The 2 BLOs who died connected Friday precocious astatine nighttime were identified arsenic Ramakant Pandey and Sitaram Gond (50). They were posted successful Raisen and Damoh districts, respectively.
"Ramakant Pandey, a teacher from the Satlapur area, was moving connected the elector database revision thrust successful Mandideep.. He died precocious Friday nighttime owed to immoderate illness," sub-divisional serviceman (SDO) and Electoral Registration Officer of Bhojpur Assembly constituency, Chandrashekhar Shrivastava, told PTI connected Saturday (November 22, 2025).
We are waiting for the postmortem report, helium said erstwhile asked astir the nonstop origin down Pandey's death.
Mr. Shrivastava said the missing BLO was identified arsenic Narayan Das Soni, a teacher residing successful Bhavya City. He has been missing for six days aft leaving location without informing anyone. Police and household members of Soni are searching for him, the serviceman added.
Meanwhile, deceased Pandey's wife, Rekha, and different household members told officials that helium was posted astatine the superior schoolhouse successful Tilakhedi and assigned elector database duties..
They claimed helium struggled with a dense workload, which forced him to enactment successful other hours each nighttime to decorativeness assignments.. They claimed Pandey received changeless instructions implicit the telephone to conscionable deadlines.
He feared suspension if targets were unmet and had not slept for the past 4 nights, Rekha Pandey claimed.
"He (Ramakant Pandey) joined an online gathering astir 9.30 p.m. connected Thursday and collapsed soon aft going to the bathroom. He was archetypal taken to Noble Hospital successful Bhopal and aboriginal shifted to AIIMS, wherever doctors declared him dead", they said..
SDO Shrivastava said Pandey's household members volition person assistance and a compassionate assignment arsenic per rules.
In Damoh district, Gond, a teacher moving arsenic BLO successful Ranjra village, fell sick connected Thursday (November 20) evening portion filling enumeration forms, District Education Officer S.K. Nema told PTI connected Saturday.
"He was taken to the territory infirmary successful Damoh and referred to Jabalpur territory for precocious wellness attraction successful a captious condition, wherever helium died during attraction connected Friday night", the serviceman said.
Gond's friends claimed helium had been assigned enumerator duties successful Ranjra and Kuda Kudan villages. He was nether unit arsenic helium was expected to screen 1,319 voters, but could implicit lone 13 per cent of the work.
Earlier, BLO Shyam Sundar Sharma was killed successful a roadworthy mishap successful Tendukheda nether the Jabera Assembly conception of Damoh district. His household had alleged that helium was nether terrible unit owed to SIR enactment and had been threatened with suspension.
