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The mapping of voters with the 2002 electoral rolls, arsenic portion of Special Intensive Revision (SIR), is 92.55% implicit successful Udupi district, Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer T.K. Swaroopa said connected Tuesday.
Addressing presspersons successful Udupi, she said that the mapping, a preliminary of SIR, of remaining voters, is nether progress.
The Deputy Commissioner said that of the 10,64,524 voters in the territory arsenic per the 2025 electoral rolls, 9,85,185 voters, including progeny, person been mapped, leaving 79,339 voters yet to beryllium mapped.
Ms. Swaroopa said that Karkala taluk leads the mapping process astatine 95.98%, followed by Kundapur at 93.37%, Kaup astatine 93.31%, Byndoor at 93.04%, and Udupi taluk at 87.57%.
She said the objective of the SIR is to guarantee that nary eligible elector is near out, and nary ineligible idiosyncratic is included successful the elector rolls.
Schedule of events
Explaining the district’s calendar of events for the SIR, the Deputy Commissioner said that the qualifying day is October 1, 2026.
Preparation, training, and printing are scheduled from June 20 to June 29.
Following this, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) volition behaviour house-to-house visits betwixt June 30 and July 29, concluding with the rationalisation of polling stations connected July 29.
Draft electoral rolls
Ms. Swaroopa said the draught electoral rolls volition beryllium published connected August 5, and the play for filing claims and objections volition beryllium from August 5 to September 4.
Disposal of claims and objections, on with the announcement phase, volition beryllium done from August 5 to October 3. The last electoral rotation volition beryllium published connected October 7.
The last database volition beryllium shared among governmental parties and volition beryllium uploaded connected the website of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
According to an ECI order, rationalisation of polling stations volition beryllium done if a polling presumption has much than 1,200 voters, she said.
The Deputy Commissioner said that the SIRs person been conducted 10 times successful the past. The 10th and the astir caller exercise, conducted successful 2002-04, covered 29 States/Union Territories. Prior to that, the ninth SIR, conducted successful 1995, covered 24 States/Union Territories.
