Bengal

XKolkata: The first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal began on Tuesday, with 2,45,71,114 voters — 32.06 per cent of the state’s total electorate — successfully verified through a mapping exercise.

Bengal currently has 7,66,37,529 registered voters spread across 294 Assembly constituencies.

An official in the Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office said the mapping process involves cross-verifying names in the latest electoral roll with those in the 2002 SIR list — the last such exercise in the state. It also checks for familial links, such as whether the parents of a present voter existed in the earlier list. Those whose details match are automatically verified and need not submit documents during the current revision, while others wil

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