Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Saturday, might publish two separate lists of “unmapped” and “logical discrepancy” cases identified during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court, acting on a petition filed by Trinamool Congress, directed the Commission to publish only the list of “logical discrepancy” cases. However, on January 21, the ECI announced that it would take the apex court’s order…
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Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The deadlines for concluding the hearing sessions on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal and publication of the final voters’ list might be extended in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent order. The apex court on Monday issued a slew of directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, especially the verification of voters under the “logic…
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) Amid allegations that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been indiscriminately issuing notices for hearings on claims and objections to the draft electoral roll in West Bengal, the Commission has explained why the number of cases flagged as “logical discrepancies” in the state is unusually high.The ECI has identified around 94 lakh “logical discrepancy” cases in West Bengal. Such cases refer to anomalies detected during progeny mapping, where implausible or…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified its plans to appoint 2,000 additional micro-observers for the hearing session on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, and to consider a proposal to increase the number of hearing centres.An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) explained that the decision to appoint these 2,000 additional micro-observers had been taken not just because such a large number of “logical …
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Physical presence for hearing sessions will not be mandatory for migrant workers from West Bengal who are currently residing in other states for their livelihoods and students from the state studying elsewhere, who have been detected as “logical discrepancy” cases in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified.Family members of such categories of voters would be able to reach the hearing centres on their behalf and …
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has furnished a breakup of the 91.46 lakh “logical discrepancy” cases identified in the course of “progeny-mapping” during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.Voters identified as “logical discrepancy” cases are those in whose records unusual family-tree data have been detected during progeny mapping.Although initially, at the end of the enumeration phase, which was the first stage of the three-stage SIR exercis…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) With the conclusion of the first stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, which was the enumeration phase, the second stage of the exercise will start on Saturday with the beginning of the hearing sessions on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in the state, which was published on December 16.Each table of the hearing session will be conducted by the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), who will be assisted by one Assistant…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) Each Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) will daily handle 150 cases of hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal from Saturday, as per the target set by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The daily target had been fixed keeping in mind the schedule of the second and third stages of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal so that the hearing session could be concluded within a reasonable period facilitating the pr…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) Three India-Bangladesh bordering districts of West Bengal, namely Murshidabad, South 24 Parganas, and North 24 Parganas, have recorded the maximum number of doubtful voters whose weird family tree data have been detected in ‘progeny mapping’ during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, stated that of the 1.36 crore doubtful cases detected in progeny mapping, the highest number — at around 4…