Overview
- The door-to-door verification phase runs November 4 to December 4, with Booth Level Officers visiting each household to confirm voter details.
- The Election Commission has trained 80,861 BLOs and issued guidance that no documents will be sought during visits, with notices only for mismatches and removal of deceased voters’ names.
- In Madhya Pradesh, about 12,000 government school teachers—including staff from single-teacher, higher secondary and CM Rise schools—have been assigned BLO duties, straining classes and ongoing exams.
- Teachers and BLOs have asked that enumeration days be marked as ‘on duty’ for attendance, a request the state CEO office has forwarded to the Election Commission, which a senior official said is under review.
- To support operations, the EC approved appointing commissioners of 16 municipal corporations as Additional District Election Officers, and a team led by Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti will visit West Bengal on November 5 to oversee activities.