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Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Kunal IAS, launched ‘Mhajo BLO, Mhajo Esht,’ a special campaign under SVEEP, organised by Booth Level Officer (BLO) of Assembly Constituency-03 Bicholim in Bicholim on Saturday.
BLO is a local government/ semi government official, familiar with the local electors and generally a voter in the same polling area who assists in updating the roll using his local knowledge. They collect actual field information with regards to the roll corresponding to the polling area assigned to them.
BLO assists eligible citizens to become voters and obtain voter card. BLO provides those different forms for addition, deletion and correction of electoral roll entries, carries out physical verification and gives his/ her report to Electoral Registration Officer (ERO). The BLO interacts with local people/ political parties’ representatives and identifies dead, shifted duplicate voters to be removed from the electoral roll after due process of law.
Speaking as a Chief Guest Kunal emphasised that the Election Commission is making all its efforts to make electoral roll healthy and clean. He said that BLOs are representatives of Election Commission of India and are the actual pillars of the entire electoral system and play a very important role in process of roll revision. Kunal appealed the BLOs to make all efforts while preparing Electoral Roll healthy and clean ensuring that no voter is left out. BLO’s need to be familiar with BLO app for more effective result, he pointed.
Kunal complimented all the students from Shri Shantadurga Higher Secondary School and BLO from AC Bicholim for their performance of fugadi and play. This folk art and artistes will be a strong medium to pass message on ethical voting among common people, he said.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Narayan Navti said that BLO needs to act as a friend, philosopher and guide to the voter and should make efforts to achieve desired goal to make error free electoral roll.
The programme commenced with a fugadi performance by students of Shri Shantadurga Higher Secondary School and a play on ethical voting by BLOs. The CEO also released a painting on special campaign theme ‘Mhajo BLO Mhajo Esht’. Certificates were also presented to the BLOs by the guests to acknowledge their efforts. Prasad Pankar, campaign ambassador also spoke on the occasion.
Gopal Parsekar, Addl Collector, Dr Gervasio Mendes, Nodal Officer for SVEEP, Isha Sawant and Pravin Gawas were present on the occasion. Pravinjay Pandit, Mamlatdar of Bicholim welcomed the guests and Tushar Parab proposed vote of thanks. Purnima Redkar compered the function.
