NEW DELHI: Election Fee on Saturday doubled the remuneration for Sales space Degree Officers (BLOs) from Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000 per election cycle. The choice additionally consists of a rise in pay for BLO supervisors, whose remuneration has been raised from Rs 12,000 to Rs 18,000.“The electoral roll equipment, consisting of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), BLO Supervisors and Sales space Degree Officers (BLOs) do plenty of exhausting work and play a pivotal function in preparation of neutral and clear electoral rolls. The Fee has subsequently determined to double the annual remuneration for BLOs and likewise enhanced the remuneration of BLO Supervisors concerned within the preparation and revision of electoral rolls,” the EC mentioned by way of a press release. The final such revision was finished in 2015, the EC famous.In the meantime, the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) has shaped a seven-member nationwide coordination staff to supervise the continuing Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and establish any discrepancies, in addition to deal with points confronted by BLOs nationwide. The committee shall be led by BJP nationwide common secretary Tarun Chugh, with members Dr Ok Laxman, Ok. Annamalai, Om Prakash Dhankhar, Alka Gurjar, Dr Anirban Ganguly, and Jamyang Tsering Namgyal.The committee has commenced discipline visits as a part of its evaluate. On Saturday, Dr Anirban Ganguly visited Nadia district in West Bengal, his residence state, to evaluate the progress of the revision train. The panel will proceed monitoring West Bengal, the place elections are scheduled subsequent yr, and the BJP goals to problem three-term Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress till December 1. The evaluate of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands has already been accomplished.The transfer comes amid studies of a number of BLOs committing suicide or dying below unnatural circumstances in the course of the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in 12 states, together with Kerala, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.Final week, BLOs clashed with police whereas trying to enter the Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) workplace in Kolkata throughout a protest over alleged extreme work stress. In line with a senior official, members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee held a procession from Faculty Sq. in north Kolkata, carrying locks and fetters to symbolically seal the principle entrance of the constructing housing the CEO’s workplace.