New Delhi: West Bengal currently has over 704 crore voters in the electoral roll after the Special Intensification Revision (SIR), Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Saturday.During the revision period, more than 5.46 lakh names were deleted through Form-7. At the same time, over 1.82 lakh voters were added through Form-6 and Form-6A.
Agarwal said more than 58 lakh questionnaires have not been received. These cases include deceased, transferred and duplicate electors.He added that more than 6 million voters were still in the “under adjudication” category but had been included in the updated rolls.The SIR process, the first such statewide revision since 2002, began distributing enumeration forms last November 4. The commission took 116 days to tentatively complete the work and publish what officials described as a “final but dynamic” list as adjudication of some cases is still ongoing.
