SIR hearings conclude across Bengal, final electoral rolls to be released on February 28

The hearings for “logical discrepancy” cases under the SIR exercise concluded across West Bengal on Saturday, a senior Election Commission official said. The officer added that the final electoral rolls will now be published on February 28.

The hearings, which began on December 27, addressed omissions and spelling inconsistencies at camps set up in schools, club rooms, and administrative buildings across the state. Officials will scrutinise documents until February 21, and any pending data with Assistant Electoral



Registration Officers (AEROs) must be uploaded by Monday.

During the enumeration drive, around 58 lakh names—belonging to deceased, duplicate, or shifted voters—were marked for omission and excluded from the draft rolls released in December. While the original deadline for publishing the final rolls was February 14, it was later extended to February 28 by the EC. The official did not specify the final number of exclusions but noted that most of those flagged failed to attend the hearings despite receiving repeated notices.