Bidar to conduct district-wide socio-educational and economic survey from September 22
Bidar: Deputy Commissioner Shilpa Sharma on Thursday announced that a comprehensive socio-educational and economic survey covering all castes and communities will be conducted across Bidar district from September 22 to October 7, reports The Hindu.
Chairing a meeting of the district-level coordination committee, Sharma said the survey will assess the social, educational, and economic status of households, including nomadic and semi-nomadic communities and tandas (hamlets).
“The survey must be carried out thoroughly and with complete accuracy,” she instructed officials.
She informed that master trainers trained at the State level would train district-level master trainers, who in turn will guide the field staff. Government teachers and officials from various departments will be deployed as enumerators and supervisors, with their details uploaded on a dedicated portal.
Around 90 master trainers, 450 supervisors, and 4,400 enumerators will participate in the exercise, expected to cover nearly 3.4 lakh households.
Sharma also said the Energy Department has already begun pasting stickers with UHID details on houses and geo-tagging them through meter readers.
Additionally, NSS volunteers will distribute survey forms door-to-door to raise awareness among residents.
The meeting was attended by the Additional Deputy Commissioner Shivanand Karale, Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Shakeel, Deputy Director of Backward Classes Welfare Sunita Shivanand, and other district officials.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moves SC against SIR
New Delhi (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in the state, sources said on Sunday.
The petition names the Election Commission (EC) and the chief electoral officer of West Bengal as respondents. It was filed before the apex court on January 28, the sources said.
Banerjee arrived in Delhi on Sunday. She is scheduled to meet Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at 4 pm on Monday to discuss the ongoing SIR exercise in West Bengal. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo would be accompanied by a delegation of party leaders.
She is also likely to meet party MPs in the Parliament House on Monday.
Talking to reporters at the Kolkata airport before leaving for the national capital, Banerjee claimed that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre is resorting to the SIR exercise because it is certain of its imminent defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls, due in a few months, and said the saffron party should contest the election politically and democratically.
The West Bengal chief minister has written several letters to the CEC, raising concerns over the conduct of the exercise.
In her most recent letter to the CEC on January 31, she alleged that the methodology and approach of the exercise went beyond the provisions of the Representation of the People Act and the relevant rules, causing "immense inconvenience and agony" to citizens.
Earlier, TMC leaders, including Rajya Sabha MPs Derek O'Brien and Dola Sen, had moved the apex court, challenging certain aspects of how the SIR is being carried out in West Bengal.
