West Bengal: ECI publishes 2002 Special Intensive Revision voter lists for 293 assembly constituencies
2002 Special Intensive Revision
(SIR) voters' lists for 293 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) have been published, except one, the office of the
Chief Electoral Officer
(CEO, West Bengal confirmed on Thursday.
'2002 SIR of 293 ACs out of total 294 ACs have been published by the WB-CEO's office," West Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal told ET.
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The CEO's office is taking necessary measures to publish the 2002 SIR of the remaining one Assembly Constituency. The SIR of one AC which has not been published as it was reportedly 'not legible'. 'We are doing the needful,' a highly placed source told ET.
The 2002 SIR voters' lists of more than a hundred Assembly constituencies of Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur, Malda, Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, West Midnapore, and Bankura districts have been published on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal recently.
The 2002 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voters' lists for four Assembly constituencies in two districts of West Bengal were not available at that time, it was learnt from the Chief Electoral Officer's office on Monday.
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The assembly constituencies whose 2002 SIR voter lists were missing-Murarai, Rampurhat, and Rajnagar in Birbhum district and Kulpi in South 24 Parganas district.
The last SIR voter list from 23 years back is supposed to be preserved. In West Bengal, the last SIR was conducted two decades ago in 2002. The 2002 SIR forms the basis for the fresh SIR.
SIR has been completed in West Bengal's neighbouring state of Bihar. According to the Election Commission, after Bihar, SIR will be held simultaneously in the entire country.
Sources informed that the Election Commission is likely to conduct SIR in Bengal in August ahead of 2026 assembly polls. The state currently has 80,680 booths which is likely to increase to one lakh. The ECI has limited the number of voters to 1,200 in each booth since the last Kaliganj Legislative Assembly by-election.
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