The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday criticised the role of District Electoral Officers (DEOs) for failing to identify booths in high-rise buildings across the state and asked them to identify them soon before the draft SIR role is published.

The last date for submission of SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls enumeration forms is on Thursday.

In a letter to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Office (CEO) Manoj Agarwal, Under Secretary of the EC, Shakti Sharma wrote: “No proposal of polling stations (in the high-rise buildings) has been received from your office so far. The Commission has taken a very serious view of the failure on the part of DEOs in performance of their statutory duty… The DEOs are liable for any lack of sufficiency of polling stations for electors in

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