New Delhi, March 26 -- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated the first ever training of Block Level Offices along with EC Dr. Vivek Joshi at India International Institute of Democracy & Election Management (IIIDEM), New Delhi today.

As per an official release, "Over 1 lakh BLOs with an average of one BLO per 10 polling stations will be trained in such training programmes over the next few years. These well-trained BLOs will form a corps of Assembly Level Master Trainers (ALMTs) to strengthen the entire network of BLOs nationwide, who are the first and most important interface between the 100 Crore electors and the Commission.

The release noted that this unique capacity building program will continue in phases focussing f...