Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday evening informed that 200 additional judicial officers — 100 each from neighbouring Jharkhand and Odisha — will join the ongoing judicial adjudication process relating to voters’ identity documents flagged under the “logical discrepancy” category in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.The additional judicial officers are expected to join the exercise on March 6.Their deployment is aimed at e…
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Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The West Bengal Civil Service (Executive) Officers’ Association on Monday refuted remarks by West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal attributing the marking of certain names as “under adjudication” in the final electoral rolls, published after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, to the functioning of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs).In a statement posted on social media, the …
Bhopal, Feb 21 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Saturday, published the final electoral roll for Madhya Pradesh, with the total number of registered voters in the state reaching 5,39,81,065, including a net addition of 8,49,9082 new voters. The Commission released the final electoral roll following completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted across the state over the past four months, which included detailed verification of every voter listed in the previous ele…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s announcement claiming that the seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) who had been suspended by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on charges of dereliction of duty will be utilised in state administrative duties other than electoral assignments is being view by the poll panel as the partial and negligible implementation of that suspension.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Beng…
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The office of West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), on Tuesday, told about the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s decision to suspend three micro-observers engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state on charges of dereliction of duty. “On the report of ECI-appointed District Electoral Roll Observers, three micro observers have been suspended by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer today afternoon. Electoral Roll Micro Observers (ERMOs) be…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday directly suspended seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal on charges of dereliction of duty, without waiting for the state government to comply with the Commission’s directive.The direction to suspend these seven AEROs had been issued by the Commission to the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, late on Sunday evening. Howe…
Balurghat, Feb 16 (IANS) Following the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to suspend seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, Union MoS Sukanta Majumdar on Monday said strict action would be taken against officials who work in a biased manner. Speaking to reporters, Sukanta Majumdar said, “The Election Commission has ordered the suspension of officials across seven blocks, including Ghatal, Sham…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) had directed the office of the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, to immediately suspend seven more assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state on charges of dereliction of duty.To recall, earlier in August last year, the ECI had directed the state government to suspend and register FIRs against two electoral registration officers (EROs) and two …
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday sent a fresh communication to the West Bengal government seeking clarification over the inclusion of several Group-C state government employees in the list of 8,505 Group-B officers submitted by the state for deployment as micro-observers in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, as directed by the Supreme Court earlier this month.“Almost 30 per cent of the 8,505 names in the list provided by th…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) should directly initiate disciplinary action against errant electoral officers at different levels accused of deliberate irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, instead of sending repeated advisories to the state government to act against them, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday.“The ECI has every right to directly take action against errant e…