EC doubles annual pay for booth level officers

The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday said it has doubled the annual remuneration of its booth-level officers (BLOs), the grassroots-level functionaries who help it prepare electoral rolls.

Since 2015, the BLOs, who help the EC prepare and update the voters’ list at the booth level, were getting Rs 6,000



per annum for their work. The amount now stands at Rs 12,000 annually.

The BLOs are mostly teachers or other state government employees who take care of addition or deletion of voters in their particular booth.

According to new EC norms, one booth will not have more than 1,200 voters.