Kolkata: With the digitisation of enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal almost nearing conclusion, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the electoral officers in the state to focus on minute ‘progeny’ mapping amid serious flaws being detected with regards to the parents’ identities in the current voters’ list in the state as on October 27.

“Progeny” mapping is done to determine whether the names of the parents of a voter on the current voters’ list match those on the 2002 list, the last time the SIR was conducted in West Bengal.

Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that the ECI is emphasising minute “progeny” mapping, following instances in which the names of the parents of some voters in

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