Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The judicial adjudication process has been completed for over 78 per cent of the cases referred for adjudication after being classified under the “logical discrepancy” category, with the process yet to be completed for another 13 lakh cases.The figures stood till Tuesday night, said officials on Wednesday. Considering the speed at which the judicial adjudication process is being conducted by over 700 judicial officers, including 100 each from neighbouring Jharkhand an…
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Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to depute one Central observer for each of the 294 Assembly constituencies to oversee the pre-poll nomination phase in West Bengal.Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that all the 294 Central observers to be appointed to oversee the pre-poll nomination phase will be either Central government officers or officers from other states.“Currently, a total of 1,444 officers are under…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) With just three days left for the deadline for scrutiny of voters’ documents submitted during the hearing sessions on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list to expire, around 20 lakh voters’ documents are pending re-verification from the side of the District Magistrates, who are also the District Eelectoral Officers (DEOs). Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that the majority of these documents that are pending re-verific…
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Friday, announced the change of responsibilities of the micro-observers engaged in the review of the hearings on claims and objections regarding the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, which is the current stage of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR). As of now, the micro-observers had been deputed at the different hearing centres to supervise whether the hearing sessions were being conducted as per the guidelines set by t…
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been compelled to engage Oriya interpreters-cum-translators for four gram panchayats — two each under the Dantan and Mohanpur community development blocks — in West Midnapore district of West Bengal, for hearings on claims and objections related to the draft voters’ list.This is because the majority of voters in these four gram panchayats located close to the West Bengal-Odisha border in the West Midnapore district are predomin…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) The Union Home Ministry, following the recommendations of the Election Commission of India (ECI), has decided to upgrade the security grade for West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal.A CEO office source said that Agarwal’s security had been upgraded to the “Y” category, which will entitle him to security cover by Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel.At the same time, CAPF personnel will also be deployed at the CEO’s office in central Kolkata.Th…