Bengal SIR 1st phase almost over, 28L remain unmapped, may face EC hearing

KOLKATA: The pre-hearing signifier of Bengal’s SIR of electoral rolls is nearing completion with astir 100% of 7.6 crore voters’ information having already been digitised. But, betwixt 28 lakh and 30 lakh voters will, successful each probability, person to be canvass officials’ hearings if they privation to enactment connected the rolls arsenic they stay unmapped (data not matching with the 2002 roll).All these unmapped voters volition get notices to look for in-person hearings and volition person to nutrient 1 of the 13 SIR documents that EC has approved for Bengal. The hearings volition beryllium held betwixt Dec 16 and Feb 7 adjacent twelvemonth earlier the work of the last electoral rolls connected Feb 14. Besides this number, till Saturday afternoon, 54.6 lakh voters remained untraceable oregon were categorised arsenic dormant oregon duplicate. These names volition beryllium deleted from the SIR draught database to beryllium published connected Dec 16, officials said.

EC’s deadline to implicit this signifier of SIR ends Thursday.“A small implicit 7% (54.6 lakh) of the 99.4% digitised enumeration forms are present ‘uncollectible’ and these names volition not beryllium included successful the draught SIR roll,” a elder EC authoritative said. But voters tin situation and record caller enrolment applications nether Form 6 if they privation to situation this. Around 23.7 lakh voters person died, 19 lakh person shifted, 10.1 lakh are untraceable, and 1.2 lakh are duplicate voters. EC volition people a abstracted database of voters who person collected forms but are yet to instrumentality them to BLOs.

These names (around 39,000), too, volition not beryllium included successful draught rolls.