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The hearing for this category, in which voters could not add their names to the 2002 voter list along with their family members, will begin from December 27, he said.
“We have started sending notices to about 10 lakh such voters from today, while notices will be issued to another 22 lakh voters from Tuesday,” the official told PTI.
During the counting phase, a total of 31,68,424 unmapped voters were identified across the state.
He said the proceedings would be organized in district magistrate offices, sub-divisional offices, various government departments as well as schools and colleges.
Officials said voters with logical discrepancies will be taken to the next stage, for which guidelines have been sought from the Election Commission.
He said each hearing would be conducted under the supervision of a micro-observer.
The training for 4,000 micro-observers will be conducted in two phases in Kolkata on December 24, he said, adding that all the micro-observers are state officials.
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Earlier in the day, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the micro observers did not have knowledge of the local Bengali language.
Meanwhile, sources in the state CEO’s office said a delegation of the Election Commission will visit the state to review the progress of the SIR of the voter list.
“Commission Principal Secretary SB Joshi and Deputy Secretary Abhinav Aggarwal will reach the state to assess the progress of the hearing stage under the SIR process,” he said.
The official said the officers will also attend a training program for micro-observers on December 24.