Kolkata: With just eight days left for the first stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal to end with the publication of the draft voters’ list on December 16, the Election Commission of India (ECI), on Monday appointed five additional special roll observers for the state.

With this fresh appointment, the total number of special roll observers appointed to review the ongoing revision exercise stands at 17. All five new special roll observers are serving Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S.) officers.

These five newly-appointed special roll observers are Kumar Ravi Kant Singh, Neeraj Kumar Bansod, Krishna Kumar Nirala, Aloke Tiwari, and Pankaj Yadav.

Insiders in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, in Kolkata, said that the new ap

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