Unusually ‘high’ birth certificates issued before SIR; Bengal govt orders scrutiny
“We are collecting all the registers that municipalities and panchayats maintained. Data will be gathered, and the registers will be returned to the local bodies after two to three days,” said an official who did not want to be named. The data will be scrutinised over three to four months to identify fake certificates.Chief secretary Manoj Kumar Agarwal called this a purification exercise.
- ▪“We are collecting all the registers that municipalities and panchayats maintained.
- ▪Data will be gathered, and the registers will be returned to the local bodies after two to three days,” said an official who did not want to be named.
- ▪The data will be scrutinised over three to four months to identify fake certificates.Chief secretary Manoj Kumar Agarwal called this a purification exercise.
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HomeNextUnusually ‘high’ birth certificates issued before SIR; Bengal govt orders scrutinyPolice on Thursday conducted searches at local bodies across West Bengal, including at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquartersPublished on: Jul 24, 2026, 09:17:04 ISTBy HT CorrespondentPrefer HTon GoogleShare viaCopy link The West Bengal government has launched a state-wide scrutiny after detecting what it called an abnormally high number of birth certificates issued in 2025 ahead of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll for the 2026 assembly elections.The government said it detected an abnormally high number of birth certificates issued in 2025.
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