FIRs, tech hurdles, deadlines leave Noida BLOs gasping for breath

Poonam Pal, a Booth Level Officer (BLO) in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, often breaks into a sweat when she thinks about the consequences of making a mistake in the enumeration forms or missing her daily target of 50 houses. It is not the ₹2,000 allowance that she and other anganwadi workers — roped in for the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls — are worried about. She is afraid of being sent to jail.