India, Feb. 20 -- New Delhi

With more than four days having passed since the February 14 deadline for uploading voter's documents under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal (WB), nearly 115,000 applications remain unuploaded, prompting the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday to issue show-cause notices to a majority of the state's poll officers ahead of the publication of the final electoral roll on February 28.

WB has 294 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and 3,059 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), and ECI officials indicated that a substantial number of them will face action for failing to digitise documents within the mandated timeline. All 24 District Election Officers (DEOs) have also...