Kolkata, Nov 29 || Around 30 lakh names of deceased, untraceable and duplicate voters will be deleted from the electoral rolls by the Election Commission of India (ECI), according to the trend of the enumeration forms digitisation during SIR in West Bengal.
As per the commission's observation, of the estimated 30 lakhs of deleted names, around 16 lakhs are deceased voters, and the rest are untraceable voters, duplicate voters, or voters who have permanently shifted to other states.
However, sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, pointed out that this estimate is based only on the percentage of digitisation of the enumeration forms completed so far, and the estimated number on this count might increase further after digitisation is fully completed.
It is learnt that till Friday evening, digitisation has been completed for the enumeration forms of 6.73 crore voters, which is around 88 per cent of 7,66,37,529 voters as per the electoral roll as on October 27, is 7,66,37,529.