Kolkata, Nov 23 (LatestNewsX) – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has opened a file on a number of complaints filed by state‑run schools in West Bengal. The schools say their teachers are being required to keep teaching instead of being released to act as booth‑level officers (BLOs) during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) campaign.
The teacher‑BLOs say that school officials are not following the ECI’s direction that, until the SIR is finished, teachers should not be prevented from doing their normal teaching jobs and should instead be freed to take on BLO responsibilities. They added that they are “forced” to spend the first part of the day in class, then rush off for BLO duties later, a split that amps up their workload and throws a wrench in collecting, digitising, and uploading voter enumeration forms via the BLO App.
Sources in the Chief Electoral Officer’s office said the ECI is treating these matters seriously and will soon instruct the state government to waive teachers’ usual duties so they can focus on BLO work. The same office noted a second complaint: server congestion is slowing the upload process, making it hard for BLOs to hit the commission’s daily target of 150 form submissions. The ECI’s technical team is already working on a solution that should resolve the issue quickly.
By 6 p.m. on Saturday, the CEO’s office logged that 3.15 crore enumeration forms had been digitised. The latest electoral roll, dated 27 October, lists 766,752,9 electors in West Bengal. The commission has set a deadline of 30 November for finishing the enumeration digitisation, and the entire SIR framework is slated to wrap up by March next year. West Bengal last conducted an SIR in 2002. src/svn
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