Door-to-Door Drive: Delhi Poll Body to Re-Verify 47.56 Lakh Voters Excluded from Draft Rolls
Senior officials of Delhi poll body said special camps for voter enrolment, including students, homeless, transgender persons and sex workers, were also being considered for November 15 and 22.
New Delhi: The Delhi poll officials on Friday said that they are planning to step up door-to-door re-verification of 47.56 lakh voters excluded from the draft electoral rolls published on August 31.
The Election Commsion of India on Thursday extended the date for publishing the final SIR a after Supreme Court intervention to ensure maximum numbers of left out voters make it to the list. Officials said the extended timelines could allow another round of verification.
Senior officials of Delhi poll body said special camps for voter enrolment, including students, homeless, transgender persons and sex workers, were also being considered for November 15 and 22.
The office of the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) had earlier directed officials to revisit the deleted entries and verify whether the excluded voters were eligible for inclusion in the final electoral roll.
The exercise will involve all 14,947 booth-level officers (BLOs) deployed across the city, including government school teachers carrying out SIR-related duties since June 30.
Around 32 lakh of the more than 33 lakh cases in which electors were issued notices over non-mapping with the 2002 electoral roll or "logical discrepancies" have been resolved so far, the officials said.
