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The Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal Manoj Kumar Agarwal, connected Tuesday (October 28) said ‘no morganatic voters’ volition beryllium removed from the voters’ database during the Special Intensive Revision successful West Bengal and that each governmental parties person agreed to cooperate done the process, pursuing an all-party gathering astatine his bureau successful Kolkata.
According to figures shared by the CEO’s office, the full fig of electors successful West Bengal arsenic of October 28, 2025, stands astatine 7,66,37,529, with an mean of astir 950 voters oregon 200 to 300 families per polling station.
“No morganatic elector volition beryllium eliminated… We person implicit 80,000 booth-level officers (BLO), implicit 8,000 BLO supervisors, implicit 3,000 adjunct electoral registration officers, and 294 electoral registration officers. Apart from that, we person the authorities machinery arsenic indispensable nether Article 326 of the Constitution… determination volition beryllium assistance desks successful each district, on with peculiar assistance desks successful migration pockets,” Mr Agarwal said.
He expressed assurance successful being capable to successfully implicit the SIR process successful West Bengal successful 3 months, similar successful Bihar, pointing retired that a cardinal quality betwixt the Bihar SIR and the upcoming SIR successful West Bengal is the availability of a machine-readable voters database of the notation twelvemonth (2002) arsenic a starting basal for the exercise.
“The enumerator volition spell from door-to-door to manus retired enumeration forms. We person undertaken definite tabletop exercises which did not hap erstwhile SIR began successful Bihar. Our BLOs conducted tabletop exercises comparing the names contiguous connected the 2002 voters’ database with the names successful today’s voters’ database to recognize recurring voters, and to find the nexus with their children who were not connected the database then,” Mr Agarwal added.
The CEO clarified that bundle is besides being utilized by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to observe matches betwixt elector individuality cards of 2002 and of today, and that these matches volition beryllium enactment up successful the BLO app during their location visits.
Responding to a question by The Hindu, Mr Agarwal besides clarified that successful the upcoming SIR, Aadhar has been added arsenic the 12th papers successful summation to the database of 11 indicative documents for SIR, lone arsenic individuality impervious but ‘not arsenic impervious of citizenship’.
“The Aadhar paper is to beryllium accepted and utilised arsenic a impervious of individuality and not arsenic a impervious of citizenship, successful presumption of conception 9 of the Aadhar Act ,” helium said, speechmaking retired the Supreme Court bid dated September 8 this year.
Speaking connected the all-party gathering conducted connected Tuesday, the CEO said that helium apprised the enactment representatives astir the emuneration forms, documentation, and the procedure.
“We requested them to name booth-level agents arsenic acold arsenic applicable and imaginable for them successful each and each polling presumption truthful that they could help. It has to beryllium a consultative workout which has to beryllium undertaken by each of america conjointly to hole a escaped and just electoral roll,” Mr Agarwal.
He added that helium is not disquieted astir the instrumentality and bid concern during the SIR process successful West Bengal, and the section constabulary would beryllium capable to guarantee the information of predetermination officials.
