ECI LAUNCHES CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME FOR NEW BATCH OF FIELD-LEVEL ELECTORAL OFFICERS FROM BIHAR, HARYANA AND NCT OF DELHI

India, May 14 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Shri Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated a two-day capacity-building training programme for Booth Level Officers (BLOs), BLO Supervisors, Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) from Haryana and NCT of Delhi at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), New Delhi today.

2. A total of 371 grassroots election officials (306 BLOs from Bihar; 30 EROs and BLO Supervisors from Haryana; 35 EROs and BLO Supervisors from NCT of Delhi) are taking part in the training programme. Including the current batch, over 2,600 field officials have been trained in the last two months by ECI in New Delhi.

3. In his ...