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Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), K. Ravi Kumar, connected Monday (June 1, 2026) directed each District Election Officers (DEOs) to guarantee the completion of the mapping of voters from the 2003 electoral rolls by June 15.
He asserted that mapped voters volition not beryllium required to taxable immoderate further documents during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. He added that if a elector remains unmapped, their sanction volition not beryllium deleted from the draught elector list; however, aft a announcement from the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), specified voters indispensable taxable documents related to self/mother oregon father/both parent and father/grandparents, based connected their day of birth.
The last work of the elector database volition instrumentality spot connected October 7, 2026, pursuing the disposal of each claims and objections by the ERO. Mr. Kumar was conducting the reappraisal of the State’s preparations for the scheduled SIR acceptable to statesman connected June 20, portion interacting online from the Nirvachan Sadan successful Ranchi.
The CEO asserted that officials indispensable behaviour a rigorous reappraisal of the mapping workout and noted that if voters are incorrectly mapped, they volition look connected a database categorised arsenic “Anomaly Cases,” requiring the ERO to behaviour a proceeding and contented due orders.
“Such voters, overmuch similar those who stay unmapped, volition beryllium required to acquisition the afloat SIR process. Officials person to marque each effort to found interaction with each elector appearing connected the database of unmapped voters. Additionally, they person to place and categorise voters falling nether the categories of ‘Absent’, ‘Shifted’, ‘Deceased’, ‘Duplicate entries’, oregon ‘Non-citizens’,” Mr. Kumar said.
He pointed retired that the superior nonsubjective of the SIR is to guarantee that nary eligible Indian national is near retired of the elector list. He pointed retired that officials indispensable guarantee that the SIR process is strictly reserved for eligible Indian citizens and that non-Indians are incapable to enactment successful the procedure.
The Jharkhand CEO reviewed the advancement of the ongoing mapping activities related to the electoral rolls. He directed that the names and interaction numbers of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) beryllium included successful the enumeration forms, emphasising that nary changes to the BLOs should beryllium made aft June 15.
During the review, helium interacted with BLOs done video conferencing who had earlier reported debased mapping figures. He issued instructions to the officials to undertake indispensable capacity-building measures for them. Mr. Kumar directed that the pendency of Forms 6, 7, and 8 beryllium brought down to zero successful each districts by June 15.
