Overview

• The Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal wrote to Chief Secretary Manoj Pant urging immediate appointments of Electoral Registration Officers and their assistants.
• The Election Commission ordered a constituency-wise compliance report on these appointments to be submitted by 5 pm on August 29.
• Vacancies cited by the CEO’s office include 16 ERO posts out of 294 and about 500 AERO posts out of 3,080.
• Following the letter, the Chief Secretary instructed districts to initiate recruitment, with a meeting held with district magistrates and departmental secretaries, according to official sources.
• The state suspended two EROs and two AEROs over alleged voter-roll malpractice but has not filed FIRs as the ECI mandated, missing an August 21 deadline for full compliance.