Nearly 42% voters mapped, SIR to start on June 30, says Delhi CEO

Around 62.44 lakh electors, comprising astir 42% of Delhi’s voters, person been mapped with the 2002 rolls, Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi Ashok Kumar said connected Wednesday.

The peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of rolls successful the Capital volition statesman connected June 30, helium added.

As per the 2011 Census, the metropolis has implicit 1.46 crore voters crossed 13,033 polling stations. Mr. Kumar said the debased complaint of mapping was not a interest and would amended with door-to-door verification and consciousness drives.

“Delhi has a important migrant population, truthful mapping voters with the 2002 electoral rolls [when the revision of rolls was past done successful the city] during the pre-SIR workout was a challenge,” helium said.

The pre-SIR mapping exercise, nether mode since January, verifies voters against the 2002 rolls. In cases wherever the sanction of an elector does not look successful the 2002 database but the names of their parents do, the elector volition person to taxable an individuality proof, on with the enumeration signifier and an extract of the 2002 elector database showing relatives’ names. Such electors tin nexus themselves done the electoral rolls from different States.

The month-long door-to-door thrust volition spot Booth Level Officers sojourn households to verify elector details. Each elector volition person an enumeration signifier that indispensable beryllium returned with SIR-linked details.

Forms tin besides beryllium submitted online.

“The main nonsubjective of the peculiar intensive revision is that nary eligible national is near retired and nary ineligible idiosyncratic is included successful the electoral roll,” said the CEO. The draught rotation volition beryllium published connected August 5, with claims and objections unfastened till September 4. Verification and hearings volition proceed till October 3, and the last rolls volition beryllium published connected October 7.

Mr. Kumar said meetings were held with leaders from six nationalist parties, which person appointed 29,758 booth-level agents crossed Delhi.