Kolkata, Jan 11 (IANS) The four additional roll observers appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal have been tasked to focus on two specific assignments. The first assignment is to conduct a check of the identity documents furnished by the “logical discrepancy” voters in the course of hearing sessions on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list, and certify whether these documents are valid or not.Sources…
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Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday appointed four more special roll observers for West Bengal to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, which is currently at the second stage of hearing claims and objections on the draft voters’ list.The four additional special roll observers are all serving Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, with three of them currently serving in the national capital, New Delhi, a…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The deadline for the Director General of West Bengal Police, Rajeev Kumar, to submit an action taken report to the Election Commission of India on an incident of heckling and attack on the ECI-appointed special observer in the South 24 Parganas district expires on Tuesday. The ECI-appointed special roll observer, C. Murugan, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was at Magrahat in the South 24 Parganas district reviewing and supervising the hearing sessions there …
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed its final chargesheet in the multi-crore cash-for-municipalities jobs case in West Bengal at a special court in Kolkata.In the final chargesheet, the CBI has named Jyotishman Chattopadhyay, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, as an accused in the case.During the peak period of the alleged scam, Chattopadhyay held key positions in the West Bengal Directorate of Local Bodies as well as the state Municipal A…
Bhopal, Dec 31 (IANS) In a year-end administrative overhaul, the Madhya Pradesh General Administration Department has promoted 16 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers from the 2010 batch to the Super Time Scale (Pay Matrix Level-14, Rs 1,44,200-2,18,200), and 24 from the 2013 batch to the Selection Grade (Pay Matrix Level-13, Rs 1,23,100-2,15,900). The orders, issued on Wednesday, will take effect from January 1, 2026, subject to the officers completing mandatory mid-career training Phas…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) West Bengal got its first-ever woman Chief Secretary, with the current additional chief secretary to the state home and hill affairs department, Nandini Chakraborty, being named as the new bureaucratic head of the state on Wednesday by the state government.Chakraborty succeeded Manoj Pant, who retired on Wednesday. Pant, who was supposed to retire in June this year, was already on an extension for six months.Although the state government appealed to the Union Government fo…
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has made it clear that district magistrates (DMs), who also function as district electoral officers (DEOs), will not be the controlling authorities of the micro-observers to be appointed for supervising hearing sessions on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, scheduled to begin next week.This means the micro-observers will neither be answerable to the DMs or DEOs nor bound by any instructions issued by the…