Published on : 04 Dec 2025, 7:01 am 3 min read

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a slew of directions to alleviate the issues faced by Booth Level Officers (BLOs) engaged in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in various States.

A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi ordered the concerned States to depute additional staff for SIR duty to reduce working hours of persons engaged in SIR.

Further, if they seek exemption from work citing specific reasons, the same should be considered on a case to case basis, the Bench made it clear.

It issued the following directions towards that end:

- State to depute additional staff so that working hours can be reduced.

- Wherever any individual has a specific reasons for seeki

See Full Page