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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued caller instructions to territory predetermination officials successful West Bengal, directing that voters marked arsenic “unmapped” successful the BLO app owed to method issues linked to the digitisation of the 2002 electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout should not beryllium called for hearings, adjacent if specified notices person been auto-generated by the system.
The directive, issued by the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, stated that the contented has arisen owed to incomplete conversion of the PDF mentation of the 2002 electoral rolls, the past SIR conducted successful the state, into CSV format, starring to linkage failures successful the booth-level serviceman (BLO) app for a fig of electors.
It said that contempt being marked arsenic “unmapped” successful the system, galore specified electors person valid aforesaid oregon progeny linkage with the hard transcript of the 2002 electoral rolls, duly authenticated by territory predetermination officers (DEOs) and published connected the CEO's website.
The CEO;s bureau said that proceeding notices generated automatically successful specified cases request not beryllium served and should beryllium retained astatine the level of the electoral registration serviceman (ERO) oregon adjunct electoral registration serviceman (AERO).
As per the instructions, extracts of the 2002 electoral rolls whitethorn beryllium forwarded to the DEO acrophobic for verification successful accordance with the guidelines of the Election Commission. Upon verification, EROs oregon AEROs whitethorn instrumentality an due determination and upload the indispensable documents for the disposal of the cases.
The directive besides allows BLOs to beryllium deputed for tract verification, including taking photographs of the electors acrophobic for uploading successful the system.
“This directive mightiness beryllium for the clip being. If it is felt that hearings are astatine each required successful immoderate cases, that volition beryllium done lone aft a due verification,” an authoritative told PTI.
However, it clarified that successful cases wherever discrepancies are detected astatine a aboriginal stage, either during scrutiny of the hard transcript of the 2002 electoral rolls oregon upon receipt of complaints, the electors acrophobic whitethorn beryllium called for hearings aft owed serving of notices.
The instructions person been circulated to each DEOs arsenic portion of the ongoing SIR workout successful West Bengal to guarantee accuracy of electoral rolls portion addressing method limitations successful bequest information integration.
