The Thane collector as well as the suburban collector said doctors were wrongly assigned election duties due to an error in the system. "It is all digital and they had entered in professor for the doctors which is why this happened. Now it will take a couple of days for it to be in writing but we have revoked the orders and the same has been conveyed to Medical Education Commissioner, Rajeev Nivatkar," said Thane collector Ashok Shingare.

“It is a randomised software used for the purpose and has been in use for a while now,” he added. Nivatkar remained unavailable for comment. Similarly, suburban collector Rajendra Kshirsagar said there was an error on the part of BMC as they did not check the column for emergency services while filling out the form.