Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer Ashok Kumar outlined the latest developments in the Special Intensive Revision drive on Friday, a voter-roll refinement exercise that has been advancing across the national capital.
Of the roughly 33 lakh entries flagged in the draft electoral roll — notices having been raised where voter data conflicted with older mapping records from 2002 — around 24 lakh of those flagged entries have now been brought to resolution. Officials at the election office indicated that outstanding cases are on track to be resolved within a ten-day window.
Figures from the CEO's office show that roughly 2.25 lakh Form 6 applications have come in to date, each seeking restoration of a name dropped during the SIR process — a count that stands against the approximately 47 lakh entries removed from the rolls.
Of the 729 people enrolled on the voter rolls in Bela Estate — a locality that sits within the Chandni Chowk Assembly constituency — all but one had their registrations struck off. A total of 496 people from that group have submitted requests to be reinstated on the register.
Special camps and outreach drives aimed at younger voters are being put in place by the Election Commission to support that process. Voter registration desks are set up at the precinct level each Sunday, giving people in employment a way to hand in their paperwork on a day that falls outside their regular working hours.
Directions went out from CEO Ashok Kumar to every Booth Level Officer and District Magistrate, requiring each to carry out a full re-verification of electoral data within their assigned jurisdictions. Voters whose names were omitted from the earlier roll, whatever the circumstances, have a pathway to registering those names before the process closes.
When asked about the deletion of 47 lakh names from the rolls, the CEO explained that the figure covers multiple groups — people who have died, those who have left Delhi on a permanent basis, and voters who were found to be absent. Enrolling newly eligible city residents and keeping verified voters on the rolls are the priorities driving the administration's efforts, the CEO indicated, while names tied to deceased individuals or those who have relocated away from Delhi are not eligible for restoration.
Under the Election Commission's timetable for Delhi, the voter list in its definitive form is set to be published on 4 December, once every stage of the Special Intensive Revision exercise has concluded. Any steps that follow will be guided by the framework the Election Commission has put in place.
