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Booth-level officers during electoral roll revisions for the upcoming Assembly elections. (Express Photo: Rahul Sharma)
With the September 1 deadline approaching, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday that it had received documents from 98.2 per cent of electors listed in Bihar’s draft rolls as part of the second phase of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
In a statement, the poll body said the collection of documents is on track to finish ahead of schedule, similar to the first phase of the exercise, when enumeration forms were gathered between June 25 and July 25. The ECI said 3,28,847 new electors have turned 18 and above as on July 1 and those who will be 18 by October 1 have also submitted Form 6, required for enrolment.
“The SIR of Bihar is on schedule,” the EC said, adding that the Electoral Registration Officers (ERO) and Assistant EROs of Assembly constituencies would take decisions on all claims and objections and verify eligibility documents by September 25.
Out of the 7.89 crore registered electors in Bihar as on June 24, when the EC ordered the SIR, enumeration forms of 7.24 crore were received till July 25 and these electors made it to the draft roll published on August 1. The remaining about 65 lakh electors were marked as dead, shifted, enrolled at multiple places or untraceable by the Booth Level Officers, and removed from the rolls.
For electors added to the rolls after 2003, when the last intensive revision of rolls in Bihar was done, the EC requires additional documents to establish eligibility, including citizenship. Electors have till September 1 to submit these documents in order to make it to the final roll to be published on September 30. New electors who have turned 18 years as of July 1 and those wrongly left out of the draft roll can also file claims and objections from August 1 to September 1.
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