32 Lakh Unmapped Voters to Be Heard in Bengal SIR from Dec 27
Kolkata: Around 32 lakh mapless voters will be summoned in the first phase of hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said.
He said that hearings in this category, where voters cannot link their names with the names of their family members in the 2002 voter registers, will start from December 27.
“We have started sending notifications to around 10 lakh voters from today, the same notification will be given to 22 lakh voters from Tuesday,” the official at the office of Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal told PTI. he said.
He said that a total of 31,68,424 mapless voters were identified across the state during the counting phase.
He said the proceedings would be conducted at district magistrates, sub-divisional offices, various government offices as well as schools and colleges.
Another official said Monday that voters with logical inconsistencies will be addressed in the next phase, when guidelines are sought from the Election Commission.
He said each hearing would be held under the supervision of a micro-observer.
The official said that the training for 4,000 micro observers will be held in two stages in Kolkata on December 24, and noted that all micro observers are government officials.
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that microwatchers lack knowledge of the local Bengali language.
Meanwhile, sources in the state CEO’s office said that a delegation from the Election Commission will visit the state to review the progress in SIR of voter rolls.
“The Commission’s Principal Secretary SB Joshi and Deputy Secretary Abhinav Agarwal will arrive in the state to assess the progress of the hearing phase under the SIR process,” he said.
Authorities added that they will also participate in the training program for micro observers on December 24.
