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Bengal SIR Tribunals Flag Major Technical Glitches on Election Commission Portal
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CNBC TV18•06-10-2026, 10:44
Bengal SIR Tribunals Flag Major Technical Glitches on Election Commission Portal
- •More than a dozen tribunal judges handling voter deletion appeals in West Bengal have raised serious concerns about functional flaws on the Election Commission of India online portal.
- •Judges reported that the portal lacks essential features such as serving notices directly, holding virtual hearings, restoring deleted names, and allowing appellants to download tribunal orders.
- •Concerns were formally recorded in an August 11 meeting and communicated to both the Election Commission and the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.
- •The tribunals were established following Supreme Court directions to address appeals regarding the removal of approximately 27 lakh voters during the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
Key Questions Answered
Tribunal judges handling appeals against voter deletions reported that the Election Commission portal lacks vital functions, such as serving notices directly, uploading additional documents, holding virtual hearings, restoring closed cases or deleted voter names, and allowing order downloads.
The tribunals were created following Supreme Court directions to hear appeals from voters whose names were removed from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision exercise in West Bengal.
The Election Commission submitted to the Supreme Court that 38.31 lakh appeals had been filed, with 22.21 lakh filed by voters whose names were deleted and 16.10 lakh filed against the inclusion of names.
