India, May 29 -- The eight batch of training for Booth Level Officers (BLO) Supervisors began at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), New Delhi today. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Shri Gyanesh Kumar addressed the participants of the training programme including BLOs, BLO Supervisors, Electoral Registration Officers from Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This is the biggest batch of grassroots election officials to be trained yet at IIIDEM with 373 participants (118 from Uttar Pradesh; 130 from Madhya Pradesh; 96 from Chhattisgarh and 29 from Haryana). With this, over 3,720 field officials have been trained in the last two months by ECI in New Delhi.
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