SIR to begin in national Capital; over 13,000 BLOs deployed

Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ashok Kumar on Monday said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi will begin on Tuesday, with over 13,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) undertaking a door-to-door verification exercise. Addressing a press conference, Kumar said the issue of voters whose houses were recently demolished in the anti-encroachment drive in the city will be taken up with the Election Commission.

As such people cannot be approached at their given address, they may fill up Form 6 mentioning their new address, he said. The door-to-door survey will conclude on July 29, and the draft electoral roll will be published on August 5. After that, claims and objections can be filed by the voters and political parties from August 5 to September 4.

The CEO’s office will issue notices to voters if needed and will address claims and objections from August 5 to October 3. The final electoral roll will be published on October 7, said the Delhi CEO’s office. Kumar said the electoral rolls were frozen on June 16 and by that date, Delhi had 1,45,10,298 registered voters. A total of 2,48,992 voters were added to the voters list from January 1 to June 16 this year. The verification process will continue during the monsoon period.

The enumeration form must be filled by each voter so that their names appear in the final electoral roll, he said, adding names of those who fail to fill up the forms will be removed from the draft roll. 
Delhi has 1.45 crore voters, 77.11 lakh male and 67.98 lakh female electors. Third-gender voters number 1,024, while voters with physical disabilities are 76,155, he said. There are 3,29,130 young voters (18-19 years), whereas those over 100 years are 192.

The national capital has 13,033 polling stations, across seven Lok Sabha and 70 Assembly constituencies. During the SIR, the BLOs will provide each voter with two copies of the enumeration form to fill out their details as per the last SIR in 2002. One of the forms will be kept as an acknowledgement, while the other will be returned to the BLO.

No document has to be submitted along with enumeration forms. For the convenience of the people, the voter list of the last SIR (Year 2002) has been uploaded on the website of the CEO. Helpdesks have also been set up in all district headquarters and voter centres of respective Assembly constituencies.

In case any elector has settled in Delhi after 2002, the person will be required to fill the last SIR details of his/her native state from where he/she came and was registered as an elector in that state. The electoral roll of all states is available on the EC’s portal.

In such cases where the name of an elector does not appear in the voter list of the last SIR (Year 2002/ 2003/2004/2005) as the case may be, but the name of parents/grand parents appears in the voter list of the last SIR, the person has to fill details of their parents/grand parents in the enumeration form. Voters can also submit their enumeration form details online. Each BLO will make at least three visits to any house found locked during the door-to-door survey.