Tea garden job record can be ID proof for SIR

The Election Commission on Sunday said that official employment records of workers at tea gardens and cinchona plantations in north Bengal would be counted as a valid document to prove their identity for the ongoing special intensive revision of voter rolls in West Bengal.

This would be applicable for workers in seven districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur, the poll body said in a letter to the chief electoral officer of West Bengal.

Many of these workers do not possess the documents mandated by the Election Commission for the voter roll revision process. The commission had earlier said that tea estate workers would be verified by district election officers, The Times of India reported.