Election Commission issues show-cause notice to Beleghata's 7 BLOs

The Election Commission issues show-cause notice to Seven Booth Level Officers (BLOs) of Kolkata's Beleghata area. These BLOs are responsible for digitising only 4-8% of the SIR enumeration forms collected from houses, while the rest of Bengal has already crossed 25% and some places even touched 30%. With the clock ticking towards the December 4 deadline, the Commission is furious: they wants to know why these seven BLOs are dragging their feet so badly that an entire Assembly segment is lagging behind. The job sounds simple—go door-to-door, hand out the SIR enumeration forms, collect them back, and quickly update the data into the official app.

But in these Beleghata area, the digital upload graph has stayed almost flat. Till yesterday 6.00 pm, the total percentage of SIR enumeration digitised forms stood at 1.95 crores, or 25.5%. The total enumeration forms distributed is at 7.64 crores, which is 99.73%, yet these seven BLOs seemed stuck in first gear. The Commission bluntly told them the pace is not even worth mentioning and their slow work is harming the whole constituency's voter list update before the draft roll is published on December 9.

The seven officers have been given time till today for the reply, or risk strict action. Meanwhile, senior officials are quietly pushing every BLO across the state to press the upload button faster because no one wants their name on the next notice. For ordinary voters filling the SIR enumeration forms at home, the message is clear: the data has to reach the server soon, otherwise the names could miss the Bengal's 2026 voter list.