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…
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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…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) Almost a year after the Supreme Court directed recovery of salaries paid to candidates who had proven to be ‘tainted’ in the cash-for-school job case, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has finally started initiating the process.The Commission had already sent district-wise lists of proven tainted candidates to the District Magistrates concerned. The district Inspectors of Schools would now start the process of recovery by serving notices to the tainted cand…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The BJP’s newly-elected National President, Nitin Nabin, on Wednesday, asked the bureaucrats in West Bengal, especially the District Magistrates (DMs) and the Sub-Divisional officers, not to blindly follow orders of the ruling Trinamool Congress leaders.“I am telling the DMs and SDPs. The days of the current Trinamool Congress government are numbered. Do not dance to the tune of the ruling party leaders. Do not be their puppets. You are administrative personnel. So sta…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) is reportedly miffed at delayed action by two District Magistrates, also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), in West Bengal in addressing instances of tension and vandalism earlier this week at two centres for hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list.One instance of vandalism was at a hearing centre at Farakka in minority-dominated Murshidabad district, where ruling Trinamool Congress activists led by party leg…
Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) Amid reports of unlisted identity documents being accepted as authentic ones during the hearing sessions on the claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India has directed the special roll observers (SROs) and the micro-observers to report such cases to the ECI daily.Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) stated that the ECI has also outlined a step-by-step procedure for reporting cases of unlisted …
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) Amid the ongoing tussle between the West Bengal government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, the Mamata government has issued certain directions to the District Magistrates (DMs), who are also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs). In a meeting convened by the Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, on late Monday afternoon, in which the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, suddenly joined in for 10 to 15 mi…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The Election Commission of India is considering seeking explanations from a section of the electoral registration officers (EROs) and the assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs), who had accepted unlisted identity-proof documents during the hearing session on claims and objections to the draft voters list in West Bengal, ignoring ECI’s specific instructions in the matter.The ECI had specified 13 documents that could be accepted as supporting identity-proof docume…
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) With less than a month left for both completion of the hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal as well as the publication of the final voters’ list, the Election Commission of India (ECI), has now set a target to complete 7,00,000 hearings a day through 6,500 hearing centres scattered all over the state.The Commission is of the view that this is neither an unachievable target nor a herculean task, considering that the electoral officers i…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Amid controversies over the identity-proof document verification during SIR, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and the District Magistrates (DMs), who are also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), to send separate reports on the progress of document verification daily henceforth.The Commission, at the same time, had also directed the EROs and DEOs to follow a two-stage document verification process, the first …