Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Monday cautioned district magistrates, superintendents of police and commissioners of different police commissionerates in West Bengal that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has the authority to initiate departmental proceedings against officers found guilty of dereliction of duty even after the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state are over.The CEC issued the warning during a separate meeting between the full …
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Patna, March 3 (IANS) A major police action ahead of Holi has created a stir in Bihar’s East Champaran district. Superintendent of Police Swaran Prabhat has suspended 37 constables with immediate effect for remaining absent from duty without prior notice.According to sources, police personnel had been deployed to maintain law and order during the sensitive festival period.In this context, unauthorised absence was treated as serious indiscipline.The SP made it clear that negligence during festi…
Patna, Feb 24 (IANS) Concerns have been raised about computer education in Bihar’s government schools, with the opposition questioning the state government in the Legislature about the significant shortage of computer teachers. Raising the issue in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, CPI(ML) MLA Sandeep Saurabh stated that the state requires nearly 26,000 computer teachers, while the government has announced vacancies for only 460 posts.He demanded that at least half of the required positions be …
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena has approved creation of 272 additional posts, including two District Magistrates and eight SDMs, in the Revenue Department, in light of the newly-created districts and sub-divisions, an official said on Tuesday.The newly-sanctioned posts, include two ADMs, six Sub-Registrars, 16 Tehsildars/SO, 22 Naib Tehsildars, 42 each of Senior Assistant and Junior Assistants and 52 MTS and several posts in the Accounts, Planning, DSS and Steno C…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The final voters’ list in West Bengal will be published as scheduled on February 28, excluding those cases involving “logical discrepancies” that will be referred to judicial officers for adjudication in compliance with the Supreme Court’s order, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal has assured Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar.According to sources in the CEO’s office, the assurance was conveyed on Friday evening after the Supreme Court directe…
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, 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…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday clarified that district magistrates (DMs), who also function as district electoral officers (DEOs), have no authority to seek explanations from micro-observers appointed by the Commission to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.The message was conveyed at a virtual full-bench meeting of the Commission earlier in the day, chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The meeting …
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) will hold a crucial virtual meeting with all the top electoral officers in West Bengal, as well as the district magistrates and the district electoral officers, on Friday, ahead of the phase of the scrutiny of voters’ identity documents starting from Saturday.The extended deadline for completing hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in the state will end on Saturday. The phase of the scrutin…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state scheduled to be held this year.As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and N.V. Anjaria will take up Banerjee’s petition along with similar p…