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The bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal has instructed each District Electoral Officers (who besides service arsenic District Magistrates) to personally sojourn marginalised and susceptible electors, specified arsenic enactment workers and tribal groups, to facilitate the inclusion of eligible voters arsenic portion of hearings being held for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
Vulnerable communities person repeatedly appealed for relaxation of SIR norms, successful cases wherever they cannot nutrient documentary grounds oregon found linkages to the 2002 database contempt being eligible voters.
“The DEO shall origin a nationalist proceeding to beryllium held, grounds statements, and hole ceremonial proceedings duly supported by videography, on with a verified database of eligible persons identified during specified enquiry,” a missive issued by the Additional Chief Electoral Officer dated December 31 reads, referring to a video league by Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti the time before.
Consult booth agents
The DEOs person besides been instructed to consult booth-level agents appointed by governmental parties during the enquiry and instrumentality into information their views during the proceedings.
“The Electoral Registration Officer/Assistant Electoral Registration Officers shall accord owed information and evidentiary worth to specified proceedings and records portion adjudicating and disposing of the applicable Enumeration Forms submitted by these persons, successful accordance with law,” the missive states.
As portion of this process, a database of each specified enrolled electors by AEROs/EROs volition beryllium submitted to the acrophobic DEO and the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal.
Appeals by activists
Sex idiosyncratic payment organisations specified arsenic the Society for Human Development and Social Action, Usha Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Amra Padatik, and the rights radical Scheduled Caste Federation had submitted written appeals to CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal to support eligible electors who mightiness beryllium incapable to find their lineage oregon supply documents.
A campy had besides been organised by the CEO’s bureau successful the reddish airy country of Sonagachi during the enumeration phase. EROs, booth-level officers, and different officials assisted electors successful filling forms and distributed Form 6 and Form 8 to see caller voters and edit idiosyncratic details.
According to Mr. Agarwal, determination are astir 12,000 electors successful Sonagachi, and linkage with the 2002 voters’ database has been established for astatine slightest 70% of them.
