EC Halts Hearings for 'Unmapped' Bengal Voters Due to 2002 Rolls Tech Glitch

• EC halts hearings for "unmapped" electors in West Bengal during ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
• Issue caused by technical problems in digitising 2002 electoral rolls, specifically incomplete PDF to CSV conversion.
• Many "unmapped" voters have valid linkages despite BLO app errors.
• Auto-generated hearing notices for these cases are not to be served; EROs/AEROs to retain them.
• Field verification by BLOs and later hearings for detected discrepancies are still possible.

Why It Matters: EC addresses 2002 electoral roll digitisation issues, streamlines voter verification in Bengal.