Kolkata, Dec 18 || The Election Commission of India (ECI), from Thursday, will start sending notices for hearing on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, thus marking the end of the first stage of the three-part Special Intensive Exercise (SIR), which started from November 4.
The draft list was published on Tuesday. Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that to begin with, the ECI will send notices to the “unmapped” voters, which means those voters who have no connection with the voters' list for 2002, either through “self-mapping” or through ”progeny mapping".
“Self-mapping voters” are those who have names in both the current voters' list as of October 2025 and the list for 2002, the last time the ISR was conducted in West Bengal.
On the other hand, the “progeny mapping voters” include those whose parents’ names appear on the list for 2002.
The number of unmapped voters in West Bengal identified as “unmapped voters” currently stands at 30,59,273.