On Monday, Delhi’s draft electoral roll was released, revealing that 47.7 lakh electors are excluded from the list of the city’s 1.45 crore voters. The Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi announced that those affected have until September 30 to submit their claims using Form 6 along with the necessary supporting documents. The final electoral roll is expected to be published on November 4.
The SIR was undertaken to prepare an electoral roll through house-to-house enumeration. Electors whose forms were not received during the exercise have been allowed to seek inclusion through the claims and objections process. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Claims and objections will be examined, and the notice and disposal process will be on till October 29, according to the revised Election Commission schedule. The draft roll contains around 97.5 lakh electors whose enumeration forms were received and digitised under the Special Intensive Revision through a house-to-house exercise, which began on June 30 and ended on August 17. Forms of around 67.18 per cent of Delhi’s 1,45,10,299 electors were digitised during the process. The extent of digitisation varied considerably across the city’s 70 Assembly constituencies. Tughlakabad had the lowest at 52.15 per cent While Rohini recorded the highest rate of digitisation at 83.43 per cent.
The remaining 47.7 lakh electors were categorised as “uncollectable” under Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others (ASDDO) and do not figure in the draft roll.
