Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The preliminary hearing at the Calcutta High Court on the public interest litigation (POL) challenging Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to transfer several top bureaucrats and police officers in poll-bound West Bengal concluded on Monday, with the ECI’s counsel arguing that the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers varies from state to state depending on the ground-level requirement in the state concerned.The next hearing by the division bench of Ch…
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Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers of the West Bengal cadre ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) since the Model Code of Conduct came into force from Sunday.The PIL was filed at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court in the run up to the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in the state next month.On behalf of the petitioner, Arka Nag, the PIL was filed by…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday decided to depute two Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers of the West Bengal cadre, both holding the rank of departmental secretaries, as central observers to other states.One of the two officers is Priyanka Singla, a 2012-batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre, currently posted as Special Secretary in the state Civil Defence and Disaster Management Department.The other is P. Mohangandhi, a 2004-batch IAS o…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Aiming for total transparency in the system of electoral management for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal next month, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has now decided to introduce a system for overseeing daily the functioning of the general observers, police, and expenditure observers appointed for the elections in the state.A special monitoring cell under the leadership and direct control of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Man…
Jaipur, Feb 24 (IANS) Acting on the instructions of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) headquarters, the Jaipur Nagar unit’s ACB, on Tuesday, arrested Jagdish Prasad Meena, Block Development Officer (BDO) of panchayat samiti Sawai Madhopur, who was also holding additional charge as District Project Manager, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,00,000. ACB Director General of Police (DGP) Govind Gupta told that the ACB Jaipur Nagar Unit received a complaint alleging that Jagdish Prasad Meena was …
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday clearly communicated to the West Bengal government that no change would be allowed in the list of 15 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 10 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers from West Bengal cadre who were originally selected by the Commission for appointment as central poll observers for other states.This means that these 15 IAS and 10 IPS officers will have to reach New Delhi by Wednesday night or at the latest by…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday named 15 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 10 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers from West Bengal as special roll observers (SROs) for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercises in other states.A communique from the poll panel reached the West Bengal Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ on Wednesday, asking these 15 IAS and 10 IPS officers. officers to join the two-day training for the SROs on February 5-6.After the …
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…