Bengal polls: EC uploads booth-wise final rolls for Phase I

Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has begun uploading booth-wise final electoral rolls for the 152 Assembly constituencies set to go to polls in Phase I on April 23.

This comes after the poll body released district-wise and Assembly-wise lists, following the removal of over 45 per cent of the nearly 60 lakh voters who had been kept under adjudication after judicial scrutiny.

The latest supplementary list, released late on Monday night, shows that out of 60,06,675 voters placed under adjudication, as many as 27,16,393 names have been deleted , taking the deletion rate in the pending pool to 45.22 per cent. At the same time, 32.68 lakh voters were retained after disposal of claims and objections.

The office of the Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has now begun publishing the booth-level final rolls under the “SIR Final Roll Revision 2” section, enabling electors to check the final status of every polling station in the 152 constituencies scheduled for the first phase. According to officials, the updated booth-wise PDFs provide a complete breakup of additions and deletions, including voters added after publication of the draft SIR rolls,names included through Form 6 applications, electors retained after adjudication and names deleted following judicial disposal.

The voters can check their status in the booth-wise final roll by visiting the CEO of West Bengal or the Election Commission of India website. They would have to open the SIR Final Roll Rev 2 section, select the Assembly constituency and booth number and then open the booth PDF to view the final voter list.

The last page of the PDF shows the final total number of electors, while the right-side summary column also mentions the number of names deleted after adjudication.

With polling for the first phase approaching, the booth-wise publication is expected to help electors verify their final electoral status before polling day.