India's food minister launched a pilot project in Puducherry using e-rupee for food subsidies, enhancing transparency and efficiency in welfare delivery.
Draft rolls published on Dec 16 had already seen WEB electorate shrink from 7.66 crore to 7.08 crore, with over 58 lakh names deleted during first phase of SIR
The rolls, being published in compliance with Supreme Court directives, will not be the final list, since supplementary rolls will continue to be issued.
Ahead of West Bengal Assembly elections, the Election Commission has deployed 240 CAPF companies to ensure law and order during electoral roll revisions.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has received prosecution sanction against senior Congress leader and former Union finance minister P Chidambaram in two separate money laundering cases related to the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media deals