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Mamata Banerjee raises monthly honorarium for priests, muezzins by Rs 500 ahead of EC’s poll schedule announcement | India News

NEW DELHI: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced a Rs 500 increase in the monthly honorarium for priests and muezzins in West Bengal, hours before the Election Commission is scheduled to announce the poll dates for assembly elections in four poll bound states and the Union Territory of Puducherry. She also announced the…

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SIR row: ECI raps Bengal’s TMC govt for not paying BLOs increased honorarium; calls it ‘very strange’ | India News

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has pulled up the West Bengal government for not releasing the increased honorarium for booth level officers (BLOs) and the additional payment approved for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.In a statement, the poll body said it had informed an All India Trinamool Congress…

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