Handbook for Electoral Registration Officers - Election Commission ...

departments/offices can be appointed as BLOs if they voluntarily come forward for theirdeployment as BLOs. No employee associated with security services, essential services,and public utilities or involved in commercial/revenue-generating activities should bedrafted as BLO if avoidable. In urban areas, retired government servant can be appointedas BLO, if serving government servants are not available within that polling area. In ruralareas, retired government servant shall only be appointed as BLO, if the DEO gives a nonavailabilitycertificate that no serving government servant was found residing within thepolling areas. . Following is a list of categories of the Govt/Semi Govt employees whocan be appointed as BLO:-1. Teachers2. Anganwadi workers,3. Patwari/Amin/Lekhpal,4. Panchayat Secretary,5. Village Level Workers,6. Electricity Bill Readers,7. Postman,8. Auxiliary Nurses & Mid-wives,9. Health workers,10. Mid-day meal workers,11. Contract teachers,12. Corporation Tax Collectors, and13. Clerical Staff in Urban area (UDC/LDC etc.)8.3 To the extent possible, a BLO should be an elector in the polling station where heis deputed as BLO. This will make his/her work easy after office hours and also becausehe/she would be working in a known and familiar locality.8.4 Teachers shall be drafted minimally as BLOs. However, where necessary, theyshould be drafted for BLO work during holidays and during non-teaching hours and nonteachingdays so as not to cause any loss of academic work.8.5 BLOs shall be provided with a kit bag inscribed with ECI logo, a BLO’sRegister in prescribed format , BLO’s photo I-Card, a copy of Handbook for BLO’s,sufficient No. of Forms (6, 6A, 7, 8 and 8A) and adequate quantity of stationery.8.6 During revision of electoral rolls, the BLOs may be assigned the tasks ofenumeration, verification of existing entries of the rolls, r e c e i pt o f Fo r m s 6,7,8,e t c . f r om eligible p e r sons of his p olling stat ion area, verification ofForms6,7,8 etc. as and when received from the ERO/AERO, collection of these formsas well as photographs from electors for EPIC and Photo Roll maximization. BLOsshould hand over the Forms etc. thus collected to the Designated Officers and EROs forfurther processing by them.8.7 During the continuous updation period, BLOs may be used for identification ofdead and shifted voters, in a campaign mode, on specified dates prescribed for thepurpose by the ECI (one week in each half of a year).8.8 In an election year, the BLO’s tasks shall begin with publication of draft rolls tillthe completion of 2nd Supplementary according to specific programme approved by theECI.8.9 BLOs have a duty to verify the existing entries of electors in electoral roll of therelevant part given to them and note down the corrected details from it. The BLOs will fillup the information in his/her BLO’s Register (Annexure 2.1a) and corrections thereof, if12