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West Bengal CEO organised special camps in Kolkata’s red-light areas to help sex workers fill voter enumeration forms.

Camps in Kidderpore, Kalighat, Chetla and Sonagachi responded to concerns of possible voter list exclusion.

Many sex workers fear their names may be removed due to missing ancestry documents or lost family contact.

Thousands of sex workers in Kolkata’s red-light districts were offered help to register for the electoral roll on Wednesday as the state’s Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office held special assistance camps across several neighbourhoods, PTI reported.

According to PTI, the CEO’s office organised the camps in Kidderpore, Kalighat and Chetla as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal . Report

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