The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Monday (November 24, 2025) said that he met with officials of the Ministry of Telecom and representatives of all telecom service providers to ensure uninterrupted internet connectivity for the digitisation of enumeration forms by booth-level officials during the Special Intensive Revision for West Bengal’s electoral roll.
This comes in the wake of a section of BLOs raising concerns around the unavailability of high-speed internet necessary for the digitisation process of enumeration forms. Disgruntled BLOs also claimed that the task of digitising thousands of enumeration forms through the BLO mobile app has added to their mounting workload, and has become especially unmanageable for the older BLOs who aren’t technologically savvy.
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“Connectivity issues can be there in a few places for a few hours or few days but the problem isn’t there for the whole time to come. The black zones are very few in number. We have told the block development officers and district election officials that centralised spaces can be there with wi-fi connectivity. Many people can sit together and do the digitisation work there,” he said.
