New Delhi
Amid the ongoing voter list revision in Bihar, the Election Commission has increased the honorarium of other personnel including BLO to double. Booth level officer (BLO) will now get an honorarium of Rs 12000 instead of 6000. At the same time, they will also get special allowance of Rs 6000 for the work of voter list revision. The honorarium of BLO Supervisor has also been increased from Rs 12 thousand to Rs 18 thousand. Apart from this, Election Commission will also give allowance to preferred officers like AERO and ERO.
For revision work, the BLO which used to get an additional honorarium of Rs 1 thousand, the Election Commission has also increased it to Rs 2000. Apart from this, it has been decided to give an honorarium of Rs 30,000 to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) and Rs 25 thousand to Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO). They were not getting any allowance or honorarium till now.
On Saturday, the Commission informed about the order given in this regard. Let us know that there was no increase in the honorarium of BLO and Supervisor for the last 10 years. The new honorarium will be applicable across the country. The commission has taken this decision in view of the voter list revision started from Bihar, in view of this.
BLO will get a total of 24 thousand in Bihar
The BLO will get an honorarium of 24 thousand during the voter list revision being held before the Bihar assembly elections. Along with 12000 honorarium by the Election Commission, a separate Rs 6000 special allowance is also being given for revision of voter list. At the same time, Nitish Sarkar of Bihar also announced a lump sum of Rs 6000 to BLO last month. In this way the BLO will get a total of 24 thousand.
