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Polling stations successful West Bengal that had triggered scrutiny by the Election Commission for signaling 100% digitisation of enumeration forms and zero ineligible electors drastically dropped successful fig from 2,208 to 29 connected December 3, 2025.
This follows the State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal seeking reports and reverification by the District Electoral Officers acrophobic earlier this week erstwhile 2,208 polling booths were recovered to person recorded zero dead, duplicate, shifted oregon untraceable electors successful the enumeration signifier of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s electoral rolls.
As connected Monday (December 1, 2025), much than 7,000 polling booths had recorded lone betwixt 1 to 10 ‘uncollectable’ forms, besides signalling negligible ineligible voters. West Bengal has much than 80,000 polling booths with astir 900 to 1,000 electors per booth.
Over 68% SIR enumeration forms digitised: ECI
According to sources successful the CEO’s office, the revised information connected booths with zero uncollectable forms connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) shows 20 booths successful South 24 Parganas, 4 booths successful Malda, 2 successful Purulia and 1 each successful Jalpaiguri, Howrah, and Paschim Medinipur. Earlier, South 24 Parganas had recorded much than 700 specified booths, Purulia 228 specified booths, and Malda 216 booths, according to sources.
This improvement assumes value arsenic the Bharatiya Janata Party continues to allege sedate irregularities successful the ongoing SIR process and the caller assignment of electoral rotation observers by the Election Commission to show the workout successful West Bengal.
