The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad have booked 21 booth-level officers for alleged negligence in carrying out their duties related to the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state, The Indian Express reported on Friday.

“Negligence is being shown in digitisation and full cooperation/contribution is not being given in election-related work,” the newspaper quoted the first information report as stating.

The revision exercise is underway in 12 states and Union Territories, including Uttar Pradesh. Booth-level officers began distributing enumeration forms on November 4.

Booth-level officers are typically primary school teachers and anganwadi or health care workers, who are employed by state governments. They are responsible for distributing and collecting enumeration forms as part of the ongoing exercise.

They are required to go door-to-door, check the identities of new voters and verify the details of those who have died or permanently moved out of an area.

Ghaziabad District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Mandar was quoted as saying by The Indian Express that there are 3,089 booths in Ghaziabad with more than 28 lakh voters.

Only 30% of the work related to the voter roll revision had been completed, said Mandar, adding that an FIR was registered against the booth-level officers for their “carelessness”.

He stated that the FIR would be withdrawn if the work is completed, as it was registered only “to...

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