Lucknow, July 8 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has started the training of district election officers (DEOs) in Uttar Pradesh before the upcoming revision of electoral rolls.

The training of DEOs of 15 districts-Etah, Hathras, Kasganj, Amroha, Sambhal, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Hapur, Meerut, Pilibhit, Rampur, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli-was completed on Monday.

State chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa directed the DEOs to keep the voter list clean. Eligible new voters should be added regularly to the voter list, he said.

"The removal of the names of deceased voters and others who've relocated from the voter list must be done through the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) net portal as pe...