Chief Electoral Officer K. Ravi Kumar has said that 540 officers and workers from different districts have been trained in 6 batches through a three-day training from 11 to 13 June to geo-fence all the 29,562 polling station areas of the state. These officers and workers will coordinate with BLO and BLO supervisor in their districts and geo-fence their polling station areas. The Chief Electoral Officer was addressing the training session related to geo-fencing of polling station areas held at the Election House on Friday.
Kumar has said that the boundary of each polling station area can be ensured through geo fencing so that BLOs can easily reach the voters of their area. On the third and last day of the training, the participants present were also given PPT, practical and field visit and the work done by them was also evaluated.
On this occasion, Joint Chief Electoral Officer Subodh Kumar, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Dev Das Dutta, officers and employees of the Chief Electoral Officer's office, Deputy Electoral Officers from various districts and employees of the respective districts were present.