India, July 7 -- Teachers appointed as booth level officers (BLOs) for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Pune district will have their teaching workload reduced and reorganised to ensure that classroom teaching is not affected, while they will also be expected to carry out election-related duties after school hours and on holidays.

The directions, issued by the Maharashtra chief electoral officer (CEO), come amid concerns raised by teachers' organisations over the deployment of school teachers for door-to-door voter verification during working hours which they said is disrupting academic activities.

In a communication addressed to the principal secretary of the school education department on Monday, the ...