Kolkata: The Election Commission will organise a special camp in Sonagachi on December 9 to protect the civil rights of sex workers during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

Sources in the Election Commission said on Saturday that the decision to hold a special camp there was taken after Durbar, a voluntary organisation working with sex workers and their children, wrote a letter to the poll panel informing about the serious problems faced by such workers while filling up enumeration forms.

Bishakha Laskar, president of Durbar Women Coordination Committee, said, “We spoke to the District Election Officer (DEO) and Election Registration Officer (ERO) on Friday. They said that three camps will be organised in wards 18 and 26. The officials will check whether any names of sex wor

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