Jharkhand’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has finalised the status of more than 2.02 crore electors, while about 19 lakh cases remain under notice and verification ahead of publication of the state’s final electoral roll on November 30, chief electoral officer K Ravi Kumar said on Wednesday.
Kumar told the Times of India that the claims and objections process could add between 9 lakh and 10 lakh voters to the roll. The number of names that may be deleted has not yet been determined. Final decisions will be taken by electoral registration officers in the respective assembly constituencies.
The revision is being carried out through the digitisation and scrutiny of applications and records. Election officials are working to complete the exercise within the revised deadline, Kumar said. He added that the SIR process in tribal areas was almost complete, although constituency-wise figures for additions, deletions and cases under verification were not immediately available.
The latest bulletin issued on November 11 showed that 16,12,912 applications had been digitised up to November 10, including applications added that day. These comprised 9,35,369 Form 6 applications for fresh enrolment, 98,568 Form 7 objections to existing entries, 5,78,847 Form 8 applications for corrections or changes of residence, and 128 Form 6A applications.
Form 6 is used for fresh voter enrolment, Form 7 for objections or proposed deletions, Form 8 for corrections and shifting of residence, and Form 6A for enrolment of overseas electors. The digitised application figures do not represent approved enrolments or completed deletions.
A sharp decline was recorded in the daily digitisation of Form 7 applications. The number fell to 141 on November 10 from 933 on November 9 and 1,079 on November 8, even as fresh-enrolment and correction applications continued to be processed.
At the constituency level, Giridih recorded the highest number of Form 7 applications up to November 9, with 14,518, followed by Hazaribag with 11,590 and Hussainabad with 2,414. At the district level, Giridih led with 15,988 applications, followed by Ranchi with 12,763 and Hazaribag with 12,242. Hussainabad recorded 614 Form 7 applications on November 9 but no fresh digitisation the following day.
Claims and objections received up to October 31 must be disposed of by November 23. The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on November 30 after constituency-level decisions are completed.
