EC officials set up SIR camps in Kolkata's Sonagachi to assist sex workers with voter registration and identification challenges.

KOLKATA: The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch ...

Kolkata’s Sonagachi area may soon host a special assistance camp for sex workers, as the Election Commission prepares to address unique documentation challenges arising from the ongoing Special ...

KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A sex workers' committee meeting is underway on the first floor of a shabby building at the entrance of Sonagachi, South Asia's largest red light district ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 16 (ANI): Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are urging the government to include their names in the voter list as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ...

A senior official in the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office told PTI that the commission has taken note of the concerns after multiple organisations pointed out that many sex workers at Asia's ...

"My husband abandoned me. I came here with my son. He got his voter ID last year. His father is not in the picture. I cannot produce any 2002 papers from my family. What will we do now?" a woman said.

The Election Commission is likely to hold special camps at Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, on December 2 and 3 to address difficulties faced by sex workers during the ongoing Special ...

KOLKATA (TrustLaw) - Their eyes lined with black pencil and lips painted red, women in sequined saris line the labyrinth of squalid lanes that make up Sonagachi, one of Asia's largest red light ...

The initial phase of the SIR ends on December 4, with the draft voter list scheduled for release on December 9. The Election Commission is likely to hold special camps in Kolkata’s red-light districts ...