Over 1 lakh electors deleted as part of SIR in U.T.

The draught electoral rotation of the Union Territory published connected Tuesday aft the Special Intensive Revision has indicated that the names of astir 1.03 lakh electors person been deleted connected grounds of death, shifting/absent, duplication and non-submission of enumeration signifier for assorted reasons.

Announcing the completion of archetypal signifier of SIR successful Puducherry, Chief Electoral Officer P. Jawahar told media that retired of the 10,21,578 electors successful the Union Territory, astir 9,18,111 person submitted their enumeration forms reflecting overwhelming information of voters successful the revision process. Of the full 9.18 lakh electors who recovered spot in the draught roll, 7.66 lakh electors are successful Puducherry territory and the remaining 1.51 lakh voters are successful Karaikal district, helium said. 

As galore arsenic 80,645 electors person been identified arsenic shifted/absent during enumeration, 20,798 identified arsenic dormant and 2,024 electors recovered to person made introduction successful the rolls astatine aggregate places. The maximum fig of electors deleted are successful Kamaraj Nagar, Raj Bhavan, Karaikal North and South constituencies. The slightest fig of deletions happened successful Mahe and Bahour constituencies. The deletions were made aft field-level verification and cross-checking with Booth Level Agents of governmental parties, helium said. 

Genuine electors volition beryllium added successful the electoral rotation during the adjacent signifier of claims and objections play of SIR, which commenced connected December 16 and would spell connected till January 15. Field representatives of each 9 large governmental parties, including territory presidents, participated successful the workout precise actively. The governmental parties person appointed arsenic galore arsenic 2,729 BLAs. The fig of BLAs earlier the SIR was lone 888. The summation successful fig of BLAs successful Puducherry was an indicator of the progressive information of governmental parties successful the revision process, the CEO said.

Increase successful Polling Stations

As portion of SIR, an workout was conducted to optimise the fig of electors successful 1 Polling Station (PS) to a maximum of 1,200 electors from the earlier 1,500 electors successful the Union Territory. Accordingly, the fig of PS successful the Union Territory has gone up from 962 to 1,099. The section has briefed each governmental parties astir the changes made to supply amended convenience to voters and facilitate queue management, helium said.