Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sent a detailed report to the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi highlighting deliberate performance derelictions on the part of a section of electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.The CEO’s office has recommended disciplinary action for EROS and AEROs found guilty of de…
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Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday pointed out multiple violations of norms by officials engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal. “It has come to our notice that EROs are no longer able to monitor the progress of AEROs on the ECINet portal with respect to the conduct of SIR in Bengal. This amounts to a TRIPLE VIOLATION,” Banerjee wrote on X.The Trinamool Congress MP also gave details of the norms …
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified the electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) “guilty” of “deliberately” delaying the process of uploading of identity documents received during the hearing sessions on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal. Sources in the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) claimed that 120 and 150 EROs and AEROs have been found “guilty”….
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Friday, noticed that in the list of 8,505 Group-B officials sent by the West Bengal government for inclusion in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state, 500 are already operating as assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) in the voter revision exercise. An insider from the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)’s Office, said that the main idea behind getting the names of these 8,505 Group-B…
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) People who will be voting in the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal this year, will no longer have to download their voters’ slip and take printouts or depend on the local leaders of different political parties for the same, before going to polling booths to exercise their franchise.The Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will reach the doorsteps of the voters before the elections this time and distribute the voters’ slips, as per the latest order of the Election Commiss…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday sent a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, questioning the authority of special roll observers (SROs) and micro-observers. According to the Chief Minister, these officials had been appointed only in West Bengal to review the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) in the state.According to the letter, the Chief Minister’s main contention is that the roles of SROs and micro-observers were no…