Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday issued orders to district magistrates not to stop development work due to the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state.

Since government employees and officials are mainly involved in the SIR work, they have been warned about the work of their own departments.

West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant has directed that the SIR exercise should continue as it is but the development work of the state government should not be disrupted.

On Saturday, the state Chief Secretary held a long virtual meeting with the district magistrates where several issues were discussed.

Sources in the state secretariat said it was discussed that the pace of the development work, that has been undertaken by various departments an

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