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The postulation of enumeration forms from electors successful municipality areas was "much less" arsenic compared to agrarian areas successful the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' database successful 9 States and 3 Union Territories, Election Commission of India (ECI) officials said connected Friday (January 2, 2026) citing disposable trends.
They said astir apt crushed for electors not returning filled up enumeration forms is that electors are not disposable astatine location owed to enactment oregon nonrecreational commitments. Constant migration was seen arsenic anther crushed down the little signifier collection.
In agrarian areas, the enumeration signifier postulation by booth-level officials was overmuch higher arsenic compared to municipality areas.
Lucknow, Kanpur, Noida were among the cities that saw "much less' signifier collection, officials said quoting disposable trends from States wherever SIR is successful progress.
They said a akin inclination was seen successful cities, including Patna, erstwhile the voters' cleanable up workout took spot successful Bihar past year.
Phase II of SIR began successful Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal connected November 4.
Except for Uttar Pradesh, draught electoral rolls person been published successful each different States and UTs.
In Assam, a abstracted 'special revision' of electoral rolls is successful progress.
The past SIR successful States volition service arsenic the cut-off date, conscionable arsenic the 2003 elector database of Bihar was utilized by the ECI for intensive revision.
Most States had the past SIR of the elector database betwixt 2002 and 2004, and they person astir completed the mapping of existent electors, according to the past SIR held successful their respective states.
The superior purpose of the SIR is to weed retired overseas amerciable migrants by checking their spot of birth. The determination assumes value successful the aftermath of a crackdown successful assorted states connected amerciable migrants, including those from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
