34 lakh Aadhaar card holders recognized as deceased in West Bengal, UIDAI informs ECI

About 34 lakh Aadhaar card holders in West Bengal have been discovered to be ‘deceased’ for the reason that identification card was launched in January 2009, UIDAI authorities knowledgeable the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The UIDAI authorities additionally communicated to the ECI that about 13 lakh folks within the State by no means possessed Aadhaar playing cards, however have since died.

The data was shared throughout a gathering between officers of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) and the state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal, amid the continued enumeration train of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The assembly adopted an ECI directive asking all state CEOs to coordinate with Aadhaar authorities to confirm voter information and determine discrepancies.

“The EC has received numerous complaints regarding ghost voters, deceased voters, absentee voters, and duplicate names in the rolls. The UIDAI data on deceased citizens is expected to help us in detecting and removing such entries from the electoral rolls,” a senior official from the CEO’s workplace stated.

Following the enumeration section and publication of the draft rolls on December 9, if candidates are discovered to have submitted kinds with names which have been faraway from the Aadhaar database, they might be summoned by the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) involved for verification, he stated.

Poll officers stated they have been additionally gathering data from banks since Aadhaar is linked to most accounts.

“Banks have provided data on accounts where KYC updates have not been completed for years, aiding the identification of deceased individuals whose names still appear on voter rolls,” the official stated.

The SIR course of is presently in progress throughout West Bengal to root out useless and pretend voters. Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are conducting door-to-door verification by distributing enumeration kinds based mostly on the 2025 electoral rolls and by subsequently mapping the info supplied by candidates in these kinds with the 2002 electoral rolls when the train was final held.

According to data from the CEO’s workplace, greater than 6.98 crore (91.19%) Enumeration Forms have been distributed within the State until 8 p.m. on Wednesday (November 12, 2025).

The presence of ghost, deceased, or duplicate voters within the draft roll might result in disciplinary motion towards the accountable BLOs, officers stated.

The Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) have been instructed to make sure accuracy and vigilance within the verification course of, they stated.