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“The demography sheet led by a retired Supreme Court judge is apt to survey the exclusion of names from the voters’ database pursuing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout conducted successful 13 States and Union Territories truthful far,” a elder authorities authoritative told The Hindu.
The High-Level Committee connected Demographic Changes that was notified by the Union Home Ministry connected May 26 held its archetypal gathering connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026). “The sheet has asked for documents from respective authorities departments,” the authoritative said.
Its mandate is to survey the demographic changes arising from amerciable migration and different abnormal reasons and urge an due organization mechanics for “population stabilisation”.
The SIR deleted astir 6.5 crore names from electoral rolls, astir 11%, that earlier stood astatine 58.88 crore successful the 13 States and UTs. SIR is simply a document-based process that shifts the load of impervious connected the electors. The deleted names see the dormant and those who person migrated.
Around 27 lakh retired of 91 lakh radical deleted from elector rolls successful West Bengal person challenged the removal of their names earlier judicial panels and those appeals are nether adjudication.
On May 27, the Supreme Court, portion upholding the SIR workout successful Bihar, said that the Election Commission of India was good wrong its authorization to verify citizenship to the constricted grade of determining inclusion oregon exclusion from the electoral roll. The tribunal directed the canvass assemblage to refer, wrong the adjacent 4 weeks, the names of electors who were portion of the 2003 electoral rotation but were purged successful the Bihar SIR connected the grounds of being non-citizens to the Centre for adjudication by a competent authorization nether the Citizenship Act.
The authoritative said the exclusions of names from SIR rolls and the circumstances astir volition beryllium studied by the panel. “We request to recognize wherefore were they deleted, however were their names inserted successful the archetypal place. The committee has written to authorities departments acrophobic seeking the details,” the authoritative said.
The Ministry’s notification said the sheet volition besides urge “a well-organised and imperishable operational strategy for the legal, just and clip bound identification, detention, and deportation of amerciable immigrants already residing successful the country.”
The Ministry said the existing organization model has not been adequately equipped to undertake coordinated, evidence-based, and time-bound valuation and effect to specified demographic shifts, adding that extended challenges person arisen from demographic changes, including owed to amerciable immigration.
The precocious released National Family Health Survey-6 information for 2023-24 shows that India’s Total Fertility Rate, the mean fig of women per children, had stabilised astatine 2.0, beneath the replacement level of 2.1. Population Census, which gives a wide representation of migration and demographic changes, was past done successful 2011 and the adjacent colonisation number volition beryllium successful 2027.
The sheet is headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Prakash Prabhakar Navlekar. Census Commissioner Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, retired IAS serviceman Durga Shanker Mishra who served arsenic Uttar Pradesh’s main secretary, retired IPS serviceman Balaji Srivastava, the erstwhile Director General Bureau of Police Research and Development, and Shamika Ravi, who is portion of PM’s Economic Advisory Council, are the members of the committee. The Joint Secretary (Foreigners-I), Home Ministry, is the subordinate caput of the committee.
