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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
any be done, In Annexure 2 of BLO Register, they should mention and update theinformation pertaining to the newly developed areas, list of migrant electors and list ofeligible electors/families whose names are not included in the electoral rolls for anyreasons.8.10 Supervisory Officers shall maintain checks on the quality of work done by theBLOs and closely monitor it. Each Supervisory Officer has 10-20 BLOs under his/hersupervision.9. Electoral Roll ObserversThe ECI also appoints some senior officers to oversee the roll revision process asElectoral Roll Observers . In those states, which have revenue divisions, the DivisionalCommissioners work as Electoral Roll Observers for districts under their jurisdictions. Inother states, super time scale IAS officers, posted in the state, are appointed as ElectoralRoll Observers. Such appointments shall be under provisions of Article 324 of theConstitution of India. These observers are normally required to visit their assigned areasatleast for three times and submit report directly to the Commission (with a copy to theCEO of the state concerned) on the quality of the electoral rolls. Sample check listsof tasks for Electoral Roll Observers are given in Annexure 2.1b.10. Electoral Registration Officers for Council ConstituenciesFor each of the Graduates’, Teachers’ and Local Authorities’ constituencies of theLegislative Council, an Electoral Registration Officer is appointed. Normally theDivisional Commissioner/Deputy Commissioners or Officers of equivalent status areappointed as Electoral Registration Officers for the purpose and DeputyCommissioners/Sub-Divisional Magistrates in the district included in any Graduates’ orTeachers’ constituency are appointed as Assistant Electoral Registration Officers.Normally no Assistant Electoral Registration Officers are appointed in any of the localauthorities’ constituencies.11. Staff deputed for roll revision to be deemed to be on deputation to ECIUnder Section 13 CC of RPA, 1950 all the officers referred to above or any other officeror staff employed in connection with preparation, revision and correction of electoral rollshall be deemed to be on deputation to ECI for the period for which they are soemployed and shall be subject to control, superintendence and discipline of the ECI.During the period of revision of rolls, any transfer or disciplinary action of anERO/AERO should be done with the approval of the Commission . For other rollrelated staff it can be done with the approval of CEO concerned. Any violation ofthe same should will be viewed seriously by the Commission12. Duties of EROsAs an Electoral Registration Officer you are fully responsible for thepreparation, maintenance and revision of roll for your constituency. The main items ofwork in this regard are:13
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CHAPTER VIII - CONTINUOUS UPDATION
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Chapter IX - Electors Photo Identit
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Councils or MunicipalitiesVILLAGESL
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