JALANDHAR: An afternoon after Jalandhar deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma warned of slapping show-cause notices and start up legal motion including lodging of an FIR against the officers, who didn't record for poll responsibility for Shahkot assembly byelection, greater than 150 staff reported for responsibility within the district administrative complex on Tuesday.
Sources mentioned greater than 300 out of general 1,700 staff had now not became up for the poll responsibility right through the first practice session of polling officials, presiding officials and assistant presiding officials on May 13. Taking robust notice, DC Sharma had requested the officials to issue a show-cause notice to erring staff and subsequently hotel FIRs against them in the event that they weren't in a position to provide any satisfactory reply.
Sharma had mentioned but even so lodging FIRs against erring staff, the administration would start disciplinary court cases against them under Section 134 of the Representation of the People Act.
On Tuesday morning, the DC known as a gathering of the heads of departments (HoDs) of the various branches concerned within the election procedure in his office and warned them of significant repercussions if their staff don’t record for election responsibility. Sharma mentioned this used to be a national responsibility and nobody could dare to skip it on any pretext.
The DC also warned the HoDs that the administration would also repair their duty for failing in their duty to ship their team of workers on poll responsibility. He mentioned in case the officials/ officers who were deployed on election responsibility have superannuated or transferred, then the department concerned will have to complement it with new team of workers. He also told the HoDs that he doesn’t need to penalize the team of workers, however any sort of dereliction of poll responsibility won’t be tolerated at any cost.
Sources mentioned greater than 300 out of general 1,700 staff had now not became up for the poll responsibility right through the first practice session of polling officials, presiding officials and assistant presiding officials on May 13. Taking robust notice, DC Sharma had requested the officials to issue a show-cause notice to erring staff and subsequently hotel FIRs against them in the event that they weren't in a position to provide any satisfactory reply.
Sharma had mentioned but even so lodging FIRs against erring staff, the administration would start disciplinary court cases against them under Section 134 of the Representation of the People Act.
On Tuesday morning, the DC known as a gathering of the heads of departments (HoDs) of the various branches concerned within the election procedure in his office and warned them of significant repercussions if their staff don’t record for election responsibility. Sharma mentioned this used to be a national responsibility and nobody could dare to skip it on any pretext.
The DC also warned the HoDs that the administration would also repair their duty for failing in their duty to ship their team of workers on poll responsibility. He mentioned in case the officials/ officers who were deployed on election responsibility have superannuated or transferred, then the department concerned will have to complement it with new team of workers. He also told the HoDs that he doesn’t need to penalize the team of workers, however any sort of dereliction of poll responsibility won’t be tolerated at any cost.
150 officials report for poll duty after DC’s warning
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