Overview
- Training for electoral officials, including use of a new BLO mobile app, is underway before house‑to‑house enumeration from November 4 to December 4, with draft rolls due December 9 and final rolls targeted for February 7, 2026.
- All 80,681 BLOs have reported after 143 received suspension warnings, with helplines activated (1950 and Book‑a‑Call with BLO) and special support planned in flood‑hit north Bengal districts.
- After the earlier website crash, a new portal (ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in) is live to host the 2002 rolls and SIR services; voters listed in 2002 will not need to resubmit documents.
- The exercise covers about 7.66 crore electors, averages roughly 950 voters per booth, and will use pre‑filled enumeration forms with QR codes for door‑step verification.
- TMC has announced 6,200 help desks and 294 constituency ‘war rooms’, directed party BLAs to shadow BLOs, and warned of legal action and protests over alleged deletions, as the ECI reviews proposals for joint supervisory committees and urges parties to nominate more BLAs.