Election Commission extends Delhi electoral roll revision schedule

The Election Commission has extended the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Delhi. The draft rolls will now be published on August 17, while the final voters' list will be released on October 19 after the claims and objections process

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday extended the schedule of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi, with the final voters’ list now set to be published on October 19.

Delhi is part of Phase 3 of the SIR, which was rolled out on May 14. Once Phase 3 is completed, the entire country, except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, will be covered under the SIR rollout.

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In a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, the poll authority said the draft electoral rolls will now be published on August 17 instead of August 5.

Similarly, the house-to-house visits, which were scheduled to continue till July 29, will now continue till August 8. Under the exercise so far, over 98 per cent of the total 1.45 crore voters in Delhi have been provided with enumeration forms to furnish the required details.

Out of the distributed forms, 17,66,553 have been completed and digitised by the booth level officers (BLOs). Over 13,000 BLOs in Delhi are associated with the door-to-door exercise.

According to the revised SIR schedule for Delhi, the draft electoral rolls will now be published on August 17 instead of August 5.

Claims and objections by voters will be filed from August 17 to September 16. The claims and objections will be disposed of by October 15, and the final electoral rolls will be published on October 19.

According to the earlier schedule, claims and objections were to be filed between August 5 and September 4. They were to be disposed of by October 3. The final electoral rolls were scheduled to be published on October 7.

Due to a variety of reasons, the SIR schedule has been revised several times.