Karnataka CEO directs BLOs to strictly follow guidelines for door-to-door SIR exercise after complaints
Karnataka's Chief Electoral Officer has ordered Booth Level Officers to conduct mandatory door-to-door distribution of electoral forms following complaints of protocol violations. Officials have been instructed to strictly follow Election Commission guidelines to ensure transparency in the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
Why it matters
Ensuring the integrity of electoral rolls is fundamental to democratic processes, and public oversight of election officials is a key component of this.
A day after allegations of protocol violations during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls surfaced from different parts of Karnataka, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V. Anbu Kumar directed all District Election Officers (DEOs) to ensure that Booth Level Officers (BLOs) strictly adhere to the guidelines laid down by the Election Commission of India (ECI), and undertake house-to-house distribution of enumeration forms.
The article reports on administrative directives and public complaints in a straightforward, factual manner.
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