SIR exercise: 1.5 lakh electors face deletion in Nirmal, Adilabad

The process of Special Intensified Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has reached the final stage. A massive number of duplicate voters are likely to be deleted from the rolls.

Commenced on June 25, the objective of SIR is to delete fake voters from electoral rolls and to ensure eligible voters are included in the list of electors. The last date for submitting forms has been extended to August 10. Eligible voters submitted enumeration forms to booth-level officers as part of the process. Omission of fake votes, migrants and deceased persons is underway.

For instance, Nirmal district comprising Nirmal, Khanapur and Mudhole Assembly constituencies has 7,55,344 voters as per the 2002 voter list. However, 6.70 lakh electors have submitted the enumeration forms till now. Digitalisation of the forms



has been completed. The remaining 85,000 voters have not submitted the forms till now. Their names are likely to be deleted from the rolls.

Similarly, Adilabad district, which contains two segments, Adilabad and Boath, accounts for 4,66,784 votes according to 2002 voter list. The district has 29,761 permanent migrants, while 13,310 voters were found to be dead. It had 7,465 double electors. About 60,000 voters are expected to be omitted from the electoral rolls once the process of SIR is over.

Officials said that digitalisation of the forms submitted by eligible electors was near completion in both Nirmal and Adilabad districts. They stated that the deadline has been extended to August 10. They urged the eligible electors to hand over enumeration forms to booth level officers before the last date.