Kolkata, Nov 27 || Names of the electorate in the Assembly constituencies in and around Kolkata are not matching with the voter list of 2002, sources in the office of Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said.
Currently, digitisation of the enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) collected from voters was underway.
The sources said that till Wednesday afternoon, 26 lakh voters have been identified whose names or their parents' names do not match the voter list of 2002.
Such numbers are pretty high at over 30,000 for Assembly constituencies like Kolkata Port, Kasba, Sonarpur (Dakshin), Sonarpur (Uttar), Behala (Purba), Behala (Pashim), Rajarhat-NewTown, and Rajarhat Gopalpur, among others, with all being scattered within Kolkata and its two adjacent districts of North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas.
The numbers are also quite high in districts like West Burdwan and the two Indo-Bangladesh bordering districts of Nadia and Murshidabad, the sources said.