Dr Shahid inaugurates 2-day training prog on Ero-net

RAJOURI, SEPTEMBER 27: District Election Officer,   Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary on Wednesday, inaugurated two-day training programme on ERO-Net here for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) of the district.  

The training is being conducted to update BLOs   about adoption of ICTs tools like ERO-Net under ECI-Net system launched by the Election Commission of India.

Highlighting the importance of ICTs usage at various levels in the electoral registration process, Dr. Shahid asked the BLOs to leverage such training programmes by understanding key features and functioning of ERO-Net which would ensure error-free and healthy electoral roll through seamless processing of forms, easy handling of data base, regular and simpler way of monitoring the electoral registration activities.

The system has three components, namely ERO-Net which would link all EROs across the country, Unified National Photo Electoral Rolls Data (UNPER) and Citizen Electoral Services on NVSP.

The training was conducted through video and power-point presentations by Sanjay Puri, District Informatics Officer and assisted by Assistant District Informatics Officer, Ashwani Sharma.   

They explained the participants about online processing of forms through ERO-Net and role of BLOs in online form processing besides highlighting the functionalities provided by ERO-Net like ERs management, polling stations management, electoral services and information on ER entries that electors and citizens can avail through ERO-Net.

Issues like low enrollment of voters in the age group of 18-19 as well as the problems faced by the BLOs in the enrollment process were discussed in intermittent interactive sessions during the programme.   Other relevant queries and doubts raised by the BLOs were also clarified by the Informatics officers.  

Among others who attended the programme were Shrikant Suse, Deputy District Election Officer, Waqar Talib, Nodal Officer SVEEP, AEROs, Shahid Iqbal and Salam Din.