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The West Bengal authorities has convened a gathering connected Saturday (November 22, 2025) with Senior Administrative Officials to sermon preparations for adjacent year's Assembly polls, sources said.
“Chief Secretary Manoj Pant is apt to seat the gathering with the District Magistrates astatine the State Secretariat,” they said. "It volition absorption connected the electoral infrastructure and Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Those successful distant districts volition articulation via the virtual mode," 1 of the sources told PTI.
A store connected EVMs is besides scheduled to instrumentality spot successful New Town connected Friday (November 21, 2025). Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, who has been tasked with overseeing the State’s polling activities, volition be the workshop, on with a delegation from the Chief Electoral Officer's office.
The store volition besides spot information of 24 District Election Officers from crossed the State, an authoritative said. "The discussions volition centre astir technological readiness, EVM investigating procedures, and assorted security-related aspects," helium said.
Meanwhile, authoritative information stated that 7.64 crore enumeration forms person truthful acold been distributed successful the State, arsenic portion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. West Bengal has a full electorate of 7.66 crore.
