By Admin 
During the ongoing special intensive review in Rajasthan, complaints were being received continuously about the heavy workload on Booth Level Officers (BLOs). Taking these complaints seriously, the State Election Department has taken a big decision to provide relief to BLOs. Now additional BLOs and information assistants will be appointed for the revision work.
At present, a special intensive revision of the voter list is going on from November 4 to December 4, 2025. During this period, BLOs have to do the heavy work of distributing Form-6, Form-7 and Form-8 and doing door-to-door verification. At many places, a single BLO had to verify hundreds of houses, which was causing delay in work and increasing stress.
Hire additional employees immediately
The Election Commission has issued instructions to all the district collectors to immediately appoint additional employees from other departments to help the BLOs. Special care has been taken to ensure that there is no additional burden on school teachers. The Commission has clearly said that half-yearly examinations are going to be held in schools in December, hence the academic work of teachers should not be affected. Teachers should be engaged in this work only when there is no other option.
According to the Commission, we saw that many BLOs were working continuously for 10-12 hours. Due to the teachers being on duty, their school work was also being affected, hence now personnel from other departments will be deployed on priority.
Will be given training and will be fielded soon
Apart from this, there is a plan to appoint retired employees, Anganwadi workers and Asha Sahyoginis as assistants in some districts. The newly appointed support staff will soon be trained and put into the field, so that the work can be completed within the deadline of December 4.
The State Election Commission says that this step will not only reduce the stress of BLOs, but will also help in making the voter list more accurate. The Commission has asked all the District Election Officers to strictly follow these instructions and send daily progress reports.