Mumbai, June 28 (IANS) Teachers in Maharashtra, who had prepared for the now postponed Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2026, said on Sunday that they had put in hard work for the exam while simultaneously working for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the Census during the day.The Maharashtra State Council of Examinations (MSCE) abruptly postponed the examination on Saturday, after a joint raid by the Bhiwandi police exposed a major question paper leak just a day before t…
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Chennai, June 9 (IANS) Tamil Nadu has begun extensive preparations for the nationwide Census exercise, with around 1.40 lakh enumerators set to undergo a month-long training programme from the last week of June ahead of the household enumeration scheduled between August 1 and August 30.The Census operation, one of the largest administrative exercises undertaken in the country, will involve school teachers, corporation staff and employees from various government departments who have been identifi…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will chair a crucial meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Friday to discuss ways to accelerate the census process in the state.The decision to begin the census process was taken at the first meeting of the new cabinet led by Adhikari as West Bengal’s ninth Chief Minister on May 11.After that, the state government issued a notification allocating responsibilities to various levels of officials to complete the census work….
Gandhinagar, May 19 (IANS) More than 60,000 people in Gujarat have joined the Centre’s digital self-enumeration drive for the upcoming population census, Chief Secretary M.K. Das said on Tuesday while participating in the campaign himself. Das completed the process by entering his family’s details on the online self-enumeration portal launched by the central government.The initiative allows citizens to submit census-related information digitally instead of relying solely on traditional door-…
Ranchi, May 19 (IANS) The Congress’s Jharkhand unit on Tuesday demanded that the Centre implement a Sarna religion code in the ongoing Census to ensure a distinct religious identity for tribal communities.Addressing a press conference at the party office here, state Congress President Keshav Mahto Kamlesh and CLP leader Pradeep Yadav said that more than 1.25 crore people in the country follow the tribal Sarna faith, but there is no separate code or column for it in the Census forms.They said thi…
Shillong, May 18 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister, Conrad K. Sangma, on Monday announced the postponement of the Meghalaya Teacher Eligibility Test (MTET), which was earlier scheduled to be held on May 29, following appeals from teachers engaged in multiple national duties, including Census and SIR-related assignments.Addressing a public programme in Damas in North Garo Hills district, the Chief Minister said a delegation of teachers had recently met him and expressed concerns over the difficulti…
Hyderabad, May 15 (IANS) Claiming that the Special Intensive Revision led to a change of government in West Bengal, Telangana Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud on Friday urged the state Chief Electoral Officer not to carry out the process in a hurry. A delegation of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee leaders led by Mahesh Kumar Goud called on Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudharshan Reddy and submitted a memorandum, urging him to conduct the Special Intensive Revision in a fair and impartia…
Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) In a massive effort to ensure the accuracy of electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India has announced the third phase of the ‘Special Intensive Revision’ campaign across 16 states and three Union Territories from June 30 to July 29. The final electoral roll will be released on October 7. Maharashtra is a key participant in this phase, with the electoral machinery set to verify the records of approximately 9.86 crore voters through door-to-door visits.Booth…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed happiness over the implementation of Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in West Bengal, saying that the people of the state will now have access to the world’s largest healthcare scheme that “guarantees quality” and “affordable medical treatment”. PM Modi took to social media ‘X’ and said, “The welfare of my sisters and brothers of West Bengal is supreme! I’m very happy that the people of the state will…
Washington, May 9 (IANS) Virginia’s Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic-leaning congressional map, dealing a major blow to the party’s efforts in the battle for control of Congress. The new map, approved by a slim majority of voters in a statewide referendum last month, would have allowed Democrats to increase their share of Virginia’s US House delegation by as many as four seats, reports Xinhua news agency.In its opinion, the court on Friday (local time) found that the Virginia General A…