In West Bengal, around 32 lakh unmapped voters will be called in the first phase of hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.
Officials from the office of the State Chief Electoral Officer said that during the enumeration phase, a total of 31,68,424 unmapped voters were identified across the state. He said hearings for this category, in which voters could not link their names with those of family members in the 2002 electoral rolls, will begin from December 27.
He further said that the proceedings will be conducted at district magistrates’ offices, sub-divisional offices, various government departments, as well as in schools and colleges. He said each hearing will be conducted under the supervision of a micro-observer.
Training for 4,000 micro-observers will be held in two phases on December 24 in Kolkata. Earlier, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the micro-observers lack knowledge of the local Bengali language.
