Overview
- A little over 6.56 crore enumeration forms—about 85.71% of West Bengal’s 7.66 crore electorate—had been delivered by Tuesday night as the initial target window closed.
- Coverage is highly uneven, with Kolkata at roughly 66% and East Burdwan and East Midnapore at about 97%.
- The Chief Electoral Officer’s office has sought guidance from ECI headquarters in New Delhi on whether to extend the distribution timeline.
- Booth Level Officers report intense workload pressures after early shortages of forms slowed the start; the month-long Special Intensive Revision runs through December 4.
- Voters are scrambling for documents, with rising queues for duplicate certificates at Kolkata Municipal Corporation and some residents traveling to native districts out of fear of exclusion.