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Submit and upload all forms by Wednesday evening, says SRO

The Special Roll Observer of the Election Commission has stressed for absolute submission and digitisation of enumeration forms within next 24 hours.

The EC, though has deferred the final date of submission to 11 December.

The SRO instructed the East Burdwan district administration this afternoon to ensure absolute completion of the entire enumeration form submissions by Wednesday late evening.

The issue of substantial increase in the figure of dead voters also was discussed at length.

The SRO Subrata Gupta, accompanied by Smita Pandey, the Electoral Roll Observer for East Burdwan and Birbhum arrived Burdwan district administrative corridor this morning and held series of discussions with the administration officials and the representatives of different political parties in phases that ended in the evening. In early 2000, Gupta incidentally was the District Magistrate of undivided Burdwan.

Gupta asked the senior officials to explain - why many forms were still not submitted and uploaded? Gupta said: "Collect and upload the enumeration forms latest by tomorrow late evening by any means." The district has estimated 18,401 trace less voters and the BLOs of different areas couldn't establish contact with 641 voters as yet.

Gupta admitted that many EROs have complained about some technical glitches including software problems. He said: "We can estimate the accuracy of the work done only after the draft roll publication. After the draft publication, the Booth Level Officers, EROs and the supervisors should further visit in the localities for further scrutinizing to secure an error less Roll."

East Burdwan accommodates 16 Assembly Constituencies where 95,702 dead voters were detected during the SIR this year, with 5477 names found as multiple entries. The district has a total 4506 Booths.