{"id":29920,"date":"2021-03-05T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=29920"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:51:17","slug":"ceo-punjab-dr-raju-takes-corrective-steps-for-the-removal-of-unconstitutional-and-derogatory-words-such-as-harijan-in-the-photo-electoral-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/ceo-punjab-dr-raju-takes-corrective-steps-for-the-removal-of-unconstitutional-and-derogatory-words-such-as-harijan-in-the-photo-electoral-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO, Punjab Dr. Raju takes corrective steps for the removal of unconstitutional and derogatory words such as \u2018Harijan\u2019 in the Photo Electoral Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-hi\">\u0915\u094d\u0937\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902, \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0909\u092a\u0932\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0915\u0943\u092a\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Chandigarh, March 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking cognizance of the complaint received from one of the electors highlighting the prevalence of unconstitutional and darogatory words such as \u2018Harijan\u2019 and \u2018Girijan\u2019 in the Photo Electoral Roll, Dr. S. Karuna Raju, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab directed all the 22 Deputy Commissioners \u2013 cum \u2013 District Election Officers and 117 Electoral Registration Officers (ERO) to take corrective measures.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Raju further said that Matter was also brought to the attention of Chief Secretary Punjab who also passed necessary directions to concerned authorities for take the necessary action to ensure compliance of the extant instructions of Government of Punjab as well as Government of India in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>He said this exercise required replacement of unconstitutional and derogatory words such as \u2018Harijan Basti\u2019 with the proper name of the village\/name of the habitation\/name of the part village and needed ascribing new names wherever it was required.<\/p>\n<p>After the instructions of Dr. Raju District Electoral officer Gurdaspur taken corrective measures by replacing name of the polling station \u201cHarijan Colony\u201d in the Dinanagar Assembly Constituency of Gurdaspur district to \u201cPart No. 108, Sec No 7, Ward No 5, Dinanagar. Likewise, the polling station \u201cGovernment Elementary School, Harijan Basti\u201d in Nabha, Patiala district was changed as \u201cGovernment Elementary School, Borha Gate\u201d. This constitution based approach to democracy with feedback from enlightened citizenry helps strengthen democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating District Authorities prompt action..CEO Dr Raju appealed to the all Voters, political parties, NGOs Civil Societiey Organaisations, to bring any such names if existing to the notice of the Office of Chief Electoral officer, Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>CEO office will ensure prompt corrective measures he further added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0915\u094d\u0937\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902, \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0909\u092a\u0932\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0915\u0943\u092a\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u0964Chandigarh, March 5: Taking cognizance of the complaint received from one of the electors highlighting the prevalence of unconstitutional and darogatory words such as \u2018Harijan\u2019 and \u2018Girijan\u2019 in the Photo Electoral Roll, Dr. S. Karuna Raju, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,4,180],"tags":[2510,16093,2514,16091,16092],"class_list":["post-29920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","category-punjab","tag-ceo","tag-darogatory-words-such-as-harijan-and-girijan-in-the-photo-electoral-roll","tag-dr-s-karuna-raju","tag-punjab-dr-raju-takes-corrective-steps-for-the-removal-of-unconstitutional-and-derogatory-words-such-as-harijan-in-the-photo-electoral-roll","tag-removal-of-unconstitutional-and-derogatory-words-such-as-harijan-in-the-photo-electoral-roll"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}