BHOPAL, April 24 -- About 1500 government employees in Bhopal applied for cancellation of Lok Sabha election duty, out of these, duty of 1000 thousand employees was cancelled and at the same time, 500 applications were rejected.
Officials said that most of the employees whose applications were canceled had cited illness, but they were found to be fine during medical examination. For this reason duty was not cancelled.
Joint Collector Aditya Singh said that there were more applications due to serious illness, pregnancy and problems to handle younger children. They were examined. There were also 500 applications in which illness was mentioned, but the employees were found fit in the medical board. Therefore duty was not cancelled.
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