Data of nearly seven lakh voters collected under SIR matched and uploaded so far in Tiruchi district

Data of astir 7 lakh voters, who person submitted the filled-in enumeration forms nether the on-going Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, person been matched and uploaded truthful acold successful Tiruchi district.

The SIR seeks to guarantee accuracy of the electoral rolls by identifying the absent, shifted oregon dormant voters and duplicate entries (ASDD) and besides see caller voters who attain the property of 18 connected January 1, 2026. More importantly, the existing voters are matched with the erstwhile SIR conducted successful 2002 oregon 2005.

The revision process is progressing connected a brisk gait successful the territory and Booth level officers (BLOs), monitored by Supervisors and District Election Officers/Collectors, began distributing the enumeration forms to voters connected November 4. The enumeration volition spell connected till December 4. BLOs are simultaneously collecting the filled-in forms from the voters. They are required to lucifer the information of voters, with the details provided by the voters, with the erstwhile SIR and upload the aforesaid done an exclusive App.

As galore arsenic 21.98 lakh retired of the full 23.68 lakh voters successful the territory person been distributed the enumeration forms arsenic connected November 19, according to territory officials.

Officials estimation that lone astir 2 per cent of the full voters successful the territory were yet to person the forms portion the remainder were expected to travel nether the ASDD category. In galore municipality areas, particularly successful places of habitations of nationalist sector/government employees successful municipality areas, a batch of voters were recovered to person shifted, officials said.

The territory authorities had already recovered that astir 45% of the existing voters names were successful the erstwhile SIR. Currently, enactment is apace swiftly connected digitising the information of the specified voters.

“So acold the information of astir 7 lakh voters person been matched and digitised and we expect to interaction 10 lakh voters implicit the adjacent fewer days,” Collector and District Election Officer V.Saravanan told The Hindu.

The territory medication has acceptable up assistance desks for each of the Assembly constituencies successful the territory to assistance BLOs lucifer and upload the information provided by the voters successful the enumeration forms. The authorities expect to lucifer the information of astir 70-75 % of the existing voters with the erstwhile SIR. This would substantially trim the request for contented of notices to get indispensable details/documents from the voters.

Seeking to allay fears implicit deletion of names from the rolls if voters were not capable to supply the accusation sought successful the enumeration forms, Mr.Saravanan said that the names of each those who had submitted the filled-in enumeration forms would beryllium included successful the draught electoral rolls to beryllium published connected December 9.

“If voters are capable to find the details pertaining to the erstwhile SIR information by themselves, good and good. If not, the BLOs volition assistance them find the same. If the forms bash not person the requisite information, the BLOs volition telephone the voters acrophobic to get the same. Even if the voters springiness the basal details to the BLOs, we volition bash the matching process done the assistance desks,” Mr. Saravanan said, emphasising the request for voters to taxable the filled-in forms astatine the earliest without waiting till December 4.

“We are readying to clasp peculiar camps this play to cod and assistance radical facing issues successful filling the forms,” Mr. Saravanan said.

The electoral registration officers volition contented a announcement aft the work of the draught rolls to those electors, who could not beryllium linked with the erstwhile SIR, successful bid to ascertain their eligibility.