Delhi’s voter-roll digitisation leaves 47.8 lakh forms pending before SIR deadline

Delhi’s voter-roll revision had digitised 97.2 lakh enumeration forms by 8pm on Sunday, with about 47.8 lakh still pending as the Special Intensive Revision exercise approached its deadline.

Election officials said many of the pending forms belonged to people who may have moved from their registered addresses or could not be located despite repeated visits by booth-level officers. Their names may be placed in the Absent, Shifted or Dead/Duplicate category when draft electoral rolls are published on August 24.

South East Delhi had the lowest digitisation rate, at 55.94%, followed by New Delhi at 60.68%, South at 61.05% and Central at 61.87%. Outer North recorded the highest rate, 75.66%, followed by West at 73.17% and South West at 73.03%.

A New Delhi district official said transfers among government employees were a factor in voters not being found at registered addresses. In Okhla, a booth-level officer said roughly 500 of 1,500 distributed forms were still pending after repeated home visits.

Residents’ groups said some people were unable to verify the status of submitted forms on ECINET. They also flagged concern among residents unable to provide details connecting them to the 2002 electoral rolls. Election authorities have revised the SIR schedule twice to give voters more time to submit forms.