Days ahead of the door-to-door survey of voters for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal, training of officials involved in the process was held at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) West Bengal.
During the training on Friday (October 31, 2025), technical officers from Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in New Delhi were present where officials were trained on how to the BLOs (Booth Level Officials) will use a mobile application to fill in enumeration forms.
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“A detailed training was held for EROs (Electoral Registration Officers) and AEROs (Assistant Electoral Registration Officers) was held virtually on how BLOs should operate a mobile application (BLO App) and fill enumeration. Over 3000 officials participated in the training across 24 districts of the State,” a source at the CEO office said. There are 294 EROs in the State corresponding to the number of Assembly constituencies.
According to officials, the BLO app designed to capture and digitise the data being submitted through enumeration forms. This training will be followed by training of BLOs and booth level agents (BLAs) — who are agents of political parties. The entire exercise will be completed before November 3 and from November 4, the BLOs will start door-to-door enumeration of voter lists on the basis of 2002 voter list.
