Mayank Aggarwal is a journalist with about 18 years of experience and trustee of The Reporters’ Collective Trust. A Pulitzer Grantee, Mayank produces journalism in all three formats, print, multimedia and audio. His writing and reportage are focused on the intersections of environment, business, climate change, technology and development. He has worked previously at the UK-based The Independent, Mint, Mongabay-India, DNA, The Statesman and IANS. His work has been published, reprinted and hosted by media organisations in and outside India. Alongside, Mayank is a media trainer and journalism community mentor working independently with several organisations.
बिहार की मतदाता सूची को जनवरी 2025 तक विस्तृत रूप से पुनरीक्षित कर दिया गया था। मतदाता सूची में कोई खामी नहीं थी। जून के महीने में भी अधिकारी सूची को अपडेट करने का काम कर रहे थे, लेकिन भारत के निर्वाचन आयोग ने अचानक से इस मतदाता सूची को रद्द कर दिया और साथ में बेहद अभूतपूर्व तौर पर वोटरों को बिलकुल ही शुरू से सत्यापित करने की एक कार्रवाई का आदेश दे दिया। निर्वाचन आयोग के इस आदेश से हड़कंप मच गया है।
The Election Commission of India has informed state officials that the controversial Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Roll will soon be ordered for West Bengal. The state has already completed one review in 2025, just like Bihar.
Records reveal: A detailed review and updation of the Bihar state electoral roll was completed by January 2025. The roll was found to be robust. Officials were updating the roll well into June. Suddenly, the Election Commission of India called it faulty and junked it, ordering an unprecedented exercise to verify voters from scratch. Chaos has ensued.
Narendra Modi first proposed it in 2008. He sold it to world leaders as India’s green solution for the planet in 2023. However, the program to help corporates meet their environmental commitments is plagued by flaws and contradictions.
Through death register data obtained from across the country, The Reporters’ Collective estimates that in the pandemic 3,59,496 more people died than in a normal year in just 3 states where officially only 28,609 died of Covid. Experts fear relatives of thousands of Covid-19 victims will be excluded from compensation due to lack of medical records, poor testing and red-tape despite the Centre initiating compensation procedure on the instructions of the Supreme Court.