Kolkata: Amid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know what official documents they possess to take part in the enumeration exercise, as a large number of them lack papers.

Of the 8,000-odd sex workers of Sonagachi, many have no connection with their parents for decades and are not in a position to get documents from them. Newcomers also do not have their names on the voter list.

Organisations working for the sex workers are now planning to move the Election Commission to inform it of their situation and held an internal meeting on Thursday.

Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, an NGO that works for sex workers, said that the issue is comp

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