Delhi SIR voter verification has been completed for 17,03,515 voters who received notices over “no mapping” or “logical discrepancy” issues, according to the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer’s office. The figure represents more than 51% of the nearly 33 lakh voters issued notices before publication of the final electoral roll.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process requires the affected voters to submit documents to establish their eligibility before the final list is published. The CEO’s office said Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are visiting voters at home to collect the required documents, meaning those who received notices do not need to visit government offices for the initial submission process.
Of the 33 lakh voters issued notices, 13.79 lakh could not be matched with the 2002 SIR records, while notices were issued to 19.33 lakh voters because of what the election authorities termed “logical discrepancies”. The voters have been retained in the draft electoral roll but must establish their eligibility before the final list is prepared.
Delhi had around 1.45 crore registered voters before the SIR exercise began. Of these, 97.5 lakh voters were included in the draft electoral roll, while approximately 47.5 lakh were reported by BLOs under categories including absent, shifted and deceased. The figures indicate the scale of the verification exercise and the administrative challenge of updating a large urban electoral database.
The election authorities are preparing to dispose of all claims and objections by November 30. The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on December 4. Until then, the verification of voters who received notices and the processing of claims will remain central to determining the composition of Delhi’s electoral register.
The CEO’s office has also organised special camps to assist people whose names were left out of the draft roll. Camps were held at several polling stations, including areas affected by recent demolition activity. The identified locations included Jailarwala Bagh in the Wazirpur Assembly constituency and blocks S, A, U and N in Mangolpuri.
A special camp was also organised at the Indian Adult Education, I.P. Estate, for transgender voters seeking registration. In addition, camps held on October 7 and 8 at schools, colleges, university campuses and other educational institutions enabled new voters to submit Form 6 for inclusion in the electoral roll.
The next formal milestones are the November 30 deadline for settling claims and objections and the scheduled publication of Delhi’s final electoral roll on December 4.
