The Election Fee of India (ECI) has revised the schedule for the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Delhi and Punjab.
For the Nationwide Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, with July 1 because the qualifying date, the draft electoral roll will now be revealed on August 17, whereas the ultimate electoral roll might be revealed on October 19.
For Punjab, with October 1 because the qualifying date, the draft electoral roll might be revealed on August 13, and the ultimate electoral roll might be revealed on October 12.
The ECI has additionally revised the schedule for the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Telangana, with October 1 because the qualifying date.
What’s Particular Intensive Revision?
The Particular Intensive Revision of the electoral roll is an train being performed by the Election Fee of India in Bihar just some months earlier than the meeting election.
As per the ECI, the goal of the train is to incorporate eligible voters within the voters listing and exclude the ineligible voters from the listing earlier than the election within the state.
That is additionally finished to make sure that the lifeless, absentee, and shifted voters are faraway from the electoral roll.
Nonetheless, how the ECI will determine the destiny of the approx. 7.9 crore voters in Bihar are elevating questions, since they’ve very restricted time to complete the mammoth train.
They must publish the ultimate listing by 1 August, and the train started on 25 June.
So successfully, a one-month deadline is simply too brief to finish such an train.
Opposition events and basic voters are elevating considerations about this brief time window.
