Election Fee officers help voters at a assist desk camp for the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls-2026, in Kolkata, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. | Photograph Credit score: PTI
The variety of ‘uncollectable’ enumeration types of useless, duplicate, absent, and shifted voters has elevated to over 57.5 lakhs in West Bengala day earlier than the enumeration section of the continuing Particular Intensive Revision is slated to finish tomorrow, December 11, 2025, in accordance with sources within the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal.
Of them, over 24 lakh electors have been recognized as useless as of Wednesday (December 10, 2025), primarily based on information surrounding uncollectable enumeration kinds within the State.
CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Wednesday met with Particular Roll Observers (SRO) lately appointed in West Bengal by the Election Fee, and instructed them to totally scrutinize entries earlier than the publication of the draft electoral roll, in a last push earlier than the enumeration section ends tomorrow. This contains instructions to election officers and SROs to test progeny voters mapping themselves to electors within the 2002 checklist, and to scrutinize the age distinction between two electors claiming to be associated as mother and father and kids.
The Fee on Monday (December 8, 2025) had appointed 5 senior IAS officers as SROs, along with retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta, to watch the continuing SIR throughout completely different divisions of West Bengal and “to make sure that no eligible individual is omitted from enrollment and that no ineligible elector is included within the electoral roll.”
The draft electoral roll is scheduled to be made public on December 16.
Revealed – December 11, 2025 02:40 am IST