Election Commission appoints new observers to monitor SIR in eight States including Bengal, T.N.

In bid to guarantee that draught electoral rolls published during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of voters’ lists are mostly error-free, the Election Commission has appointed peculiar rotation observers (SROs) successful 8 States.

The committee has besides asked Chief Electoral Officers of each States and Union Territories to stock the database of absent, shifted/dead and duplicate (ASD) voters with booth-level agents of governmental parties anterior to the work of the draught rolls.

Nearly 5 lakh booth-level officers (BLO) of each the 12 States and Union Territories, wherever the SIR is presently nether way, are holding booth-wise meetings with the much than 12 lakh BLAs of governmental parties to manus implicit the ASD lists to them.

The BLO marks voters “absent, shifted oregon dead/duplicate” aft 3 oregon much visits to their houses.

This is to ascertain the nonstop presumption of each specified elector connected the ASD list, truthful that immoderate mistake tin beryllium rectified earlier the work of the draught electoral rolls itself, a elder ECI authoritative said.

Even aft work of the draught electoral roll, the ASD database volition beryllium made disposable connected the websites of the respective District Election Officers/District Magistrates (district-wise) arsenic good arsenic connected the website of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO). This volition besides beryllium disposable successful an EPIC-searchable mode..

Apart from this, the peculiar rotation observers (SROs) appointed successful 8 States with a ample elector basal – West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan – person already begun their work. They are expected to beryllium contiguous 2 days a week successful these States until the last electoral rolls are published successful February 2026. They volition behaviour meetings with the State-level and district-level enactment of each the nationalist and State governmental parties.

The SROs volition besides be meetings with the CEOs and DEOs of the States either physically oregon virtually to guarantee that the full process is completed successful a smooth, transparent and participatory manner.

The draught lists for the 12 States and Union Territories are scheduled to beryllium published betwixt December 16 and December 31.