Overview
- West Bengal has delivered 7.14 crore enumeration forms, covering 93.22% of 7.66 crore voters, with about 70 lakh forms still to go before Friday’s extended cutoff.
- The door-to-door distribution concludes the first phase of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision, the state’s first such exercise since 2002, with the overall revision slated to finish by March.
- The CEO’s office flagged 37 assembly segments below 75% coverage, including Kasba, Jadavpur, Beleghata, Bidhannagar, Rajarhat–New Town, Behala, Maheshtala, Metiabruz, Sonarpur, Tollygunge and Cossipore–Belgachia, and directed EROs and BLOs to intensify outreach.
- Under the guidelines, voters without a 2002 roll link for themselves or a parent must furnish one of 11 specified documents to stay on the rolls, while those with 2002 entries must show one of 11 identity proofs.
- The exercise has drawn sharp political reactions with TMC alleging an NRC-style push and BJP saying the revision will remove illegal voters, even as ECI data places Bengal among the leading states in coverage and notes 80,861 BLOs deployed across 12 states and UTs.