Kolkata, February 14 The hearings for "logical discrepancy" cases in the SIR exercise concluded across West Bengal on Saturday, a senior EC official said, adding that the final electoral rolls is scheduled to be published on February 28.
The hearings, which addressed omissions and inconsistencies in name spellings, began on December 27 and continued across the state at camps set up in schools, club rooms and administrative buildings.
"The poll officials will now scrutinize documents until February 21, and the final electoral rolls is slated for publication on February 28," the official said.
Any pending data for Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) must be uploaded by Monday.
During the enumeration exercise, approximately 58 lakh names (of deceased/duplicate/shifted voters) were referred as suitable for omission and were excluded from the draft electoral rolls published in December.
The deadline for publishing the final electoral rolls was February 14, which was later extended by the EC to February 28.
The official did not specify the final number of names to be excluded, but said that most of these people did not attend the hearing sessions despite receiving repeated notices.
