Jaipur, Nov. 30 -- On November 18, Gogalram Jat (55), a booth level officer (BLO) engaged at part number 19 in Jaipur's Jhotwara fainted after being attacked by a dog at a home he visited to collected the enumeration form in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise. Gogalram was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he remained admitted for the next two days, after which the Election Department provided him with an assistant, who is also a teacher from the school where Gogalram worked. "The last month was even worse than the COVID-19 pandemic. I could hardly feel if I was alive or dead. Is it possible for a single person to cover thousands of voters in just a month? I was overwhelmed with a pile of papers since the first day of the survey. My panic overwhelmed me when I saw that dog pouncing at me and I fainted immediately. When I woke up at the hospital, doctors told me that my blood pressure dropped drastically due to stress" said a frustrated Gogalram, whose booth has a total 1,461 voters. According to the data collected by the Election Department, Rajasthan has a total 17,829 booths, which contributes to nearly 34% of the total 52,469 polling booths across the state, and has more than 1,200 voters- a specific cap that was set by the Election Commission of India for all the booths ahead of the Bihar election this year. Gogalram was hospitalised only a day after the death of a 47-year-old BLO from Jhotwara by suicide on November 17 night who, in his last note, also accused one of his supervisors of constantly threatening to finsih the work. In Rajasthan, two more BLOs also died by cardiac arrest on November 19 and November 21. "I didn't sleep for days in the last month. At least 19 to 20 hours of my day were dedicated to the survey. My supervisors also used to give us small targets from time to time that we were supposed to meet despite the deadline being December 4," said Gogalram. Jugal Kishor Sharma, another BLO at Jhotwara's part number 27 with 1,404 voters, said, "I used to leave my house at 5am daily and return at around 11pm to 12am. But it was never the end of my day. It takes one or two more hours to upload all the forms on the website. My family gets upset with my routine but I have no other option." Meanwhile, the people barely care about the SIR survey on the ground. "Many of them said that they are okay if their names get dropped from the voter lists. Their daily job is more important than the SIR. If you go to visit them in the morning, you would never find them at home. You have to go to their field or factory to get the job done. I also visited several houses more than five times to fill up the EF despite the maximum limit of official visit being only three times," said Jugal. According to the BLOs, the average time that takes to map a voter and fill up their EF is about 20 to 25 minutes. "Can you imagine how it feels to spend 20 to 25 minutes for each of the 1,294 voters? This is the chunk of voters that I had to cover in a month," said Nanuram Yadav from Jhotwara's Part number 21. Yet, BLOs in around 13,500 booths have already finished their work by Friday night, much ahead of the deadline, while ECI data also showed that at least 45.9 million forms were already uploaded on the ECINet while 2,752,000 were yet to be collected....