Bengal

Kolkata: The state government has released Rs 61 crore under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) fund, through which the Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office will pay a portion of the remuneration to Booth Level Officers (BLOs).

According to sources in the Commission, each BLO will receive Rs 4,000.

There are 95,000 BLOs in the state engaged in the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls. They had earlier received Rs 2,000 each as the first instalment of their total remuneration. Data from the state CEO’s office show that 56.29 lakh forms across the state are uncollectible, including 23.98 lakh dead voters. Another 19.64 lakh electors have permanently shifted, 10.94 lakh are untraceable, and over 1.32 lakh have been identified as duplicate voters.

As of Monday, over 2.5 lakh forms in

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