TMC ‘war rooms’ in city to speed up SIR job by BLAs
Times of India | 28 November 2025
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Thursday activated full-scale "war rooms" across the city to speed up booth level agents' uploading of SIR data on the party's Didir Doot app over the next one week.
On Thursday, mayor Firhad Hakim visited war rooms in Dhapa and Beliaghata — under Entally and Beliaghata constituencies — to encourage teams and check infrastructure. Councillors have been told to inspect these units at least once daily. "We need to track BLAs closely and ensure they meet as many citizens as possible. The war rooms help both with data collection and hearing grievances," a councillor said.
While the EC's BLOs use official apps for SIR work, TMC's BLAs have been trained to cross-verify this information and upload it on the party's Didir Doot 2 database. Workshops have been held to train workers in geotagging, household-level mapping, and real-time data updates.
Launched in 2021 as a citizen-outreach app, Didir Doot's upgraded version now allows detailed voter-wise monitoring across all 294 assembly seats. "It gives the party a constantly updated, geo-tagged voter profile. Data from 7.6 crore voters will be accessible centrally," a TMC functionary said. Under the new system, Hakim and other MLAs must reach out to at least 15 BLAs daily to ensure they complete enumeration tasks. Progress reports will be reviewed every 15 days by CM Mamata Banerjee.
Other netas like Aroop Biswas, Manas Bhuniya, Sujit Bose and Chandrima Bhattacharya also took control of war rooms in Hooghly, Bankura, Bongaon, and Jhargram, respectively.
War rooms — first announced on Oct 31 for every assembly segment — are being run by councillors and trained workers familiar with local neighbourhoods and equipped with the necessary computer skills.
Aroop Biswas, Manas Bhuniya, Sujit Bose, and Chandrima Bhattacharya also took control of war rooms in Hooghly, Bankura, Bongaon, and Jhargram, respectively. The move came after party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, on Monday, pulled up the Kolkata organisation for being the "worst performing" district in form upload.