KOLKATA: With almost 99 per cent of digitisation of enumeration forms collected from the voters by the booth-level officers (BLOs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal being already completed, the number of voters enlisted in the current voters’ list found to be suitable for exclusion stands at around 53 lakh.
Till Thursday evening, 98.84 per cent of the duly filled enumeration forms collected from the voters had already been completed, and as per the trend of the digitisation of those forms, the number of voters in the existing voters’ list found eligible for exclusion till that period is 52, 99, 663.
According to sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, of the 52, 99, 663 identified excludable voters till Thursday evening, 23, 48, 095 are deceased voters.