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Delhi BLO’s Long Day Balancing Teaching and Voter Verification
Inamul Hasan is a teacher who is also working as a booth-level officer.
His job is to help check voter records during Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision.
He spent the morning teaching and supervising an exam.
In the afternoon, he delivered notices and held hearings for voters.
Finding one voter was difficult because the listed house number could not be found.
He eventually located a relative and completed some paperwork.
Hasan has many more notices and hearings to handle.
He must also return to his teaching work and grade more than 200 exam papers.
Inamul Hasan spent his morning teaching Urdu and invigilating a three-hour examination before beginning his BLO duties.
He spent much of the afternoon trying to locate House 76 and elector Shubham Basishta, but found no such numbered house.
Hasan distributed five notices and conducted two hearings during three hours in the Sarai Kale Khan neighbourhood.
Of 519 assigned electors, 137 have received notices, while 30 notices and about 100 hearings remain.
After returning home around 6 pm, Hasan still had more than 200 examination papers to check.
- Who
- Inamul Hasan, a teacher and booth-level officer, is carrying out voter-verification work in Delhi.
- What
- He is delivering electoral notices, conducting hearings and checking documents as part of the Special Intensive Revision.
- Where
- The work took place in the Sarai Kale Khan neighbourhood, including the area locally called Kale Khan.
- When
- The reported workday began at 5 am and continued until around 6 pm, with additional grading still pending.
- Why
- The notices require electors to provide documents showing their eligibility to remain on the final voter list, scheduled for release on December 4.
Key facts
- Assigned electors
- 519
- Electors issued notices
- 137
- Notices still to serve
- 30
- Hearings still pending
- About 100
- Work completed in three hours
- Five notices distributed and two hearings conducted
- Documents cited
- Any two of Aadhaar, PAN card, bank account proof, birth certificate or school marksheet
- Additional school work
- More than 200 examination papers awaited checking
Quotes
A local resident
A resident explaining the neighbourhood’s confusing property numbering
“Our grandfather used to own one large khasra, 86T. It kept getting subdivided, but the houses were never registered.”
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Shubham Basishta’s cousin
A shopkeeper who is Shubham Basishta’s cousin
“Is this the only work left for us? Should we shut our shops and do this all day?”
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Inamul Hasan
A teacher and booth-level officer conducting Delhi’s SIR fieldwork
“How are we supposed to do this work standing on the streets in an area like this, where we can’t even find the houses?”
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Sources
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