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The Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026) ordered a reshuffle of 13 IAS officers successful poll-bound West Bengal, appointing respective territory magistrates (DMs), who person besides been designated arsenic District Election Officers (DEOs) and entrusted with cardinal responsibilities arsenic canvass observers.
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According to an authoritative connection issued by the canvass body, officers including Jitin Yadav (Cooch Behar), Sandeep Ghosh (Jalpaiguri), Vivek Kumar (Uttar Dinajpur), Rajanvir Singh Kapur (Malda) and R. Arjun (Murshidabad) person been posted arsenic DM-cum-DEOs.
Similarly, Srikant Palli has been appointed DM-cum-DEO of Nadia, Sweta Agarwal successful Purba Bardhaman, Shilpa Gorisaria successful North 24 Parganas, Abhishek Kumar Tiwary successful South 24 Parganas, Harishankar Panicker successful Darjeeling and T. Balasubramanian successful Alipurduar.
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Smita Pandey has been posted arsenic Municipal Commissioner of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and DEO of Kolkata North, portion Randhir Kumar volition service arsenic DEO of Kolkata South.
"These officers volition play a important relation successful ensuring free, just and transparent elections. Many of them volition besides relation successful perceiver capacities to intimately show canvass preparedness and behaviour astatine the territory level," a elder Election Commission authoritative said.
The committee said the directions are to beryllium implemented with contiguous effect and a compliance study connected the joining of the officers indispensable beryllium submitted by 3 p.m. connected March 19.
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It besides directed that officers transferred retired should not beryllium posted successful immoderate election-related assignments till the completion of the electoral process.
