Vijayanagara launches Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls; draft list on August 5

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Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Kavita S. Mannikeri addressing a press conference on the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Hosapete on Friday (June 5). | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Kavita S. Mannikeri on Friday (June 5) said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is under way in Vijayanagara district in accordance with the directions of the Election Commission of India, with preparatory activities currently in progress.

Addressing a press conference at the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Ms. Mannikeri said voters have until June 16 for inclusion, deletion and progeny mapping of names in the electoral rolls. The portal would thereafter be frozen and no modifications would be permitted until publication of the draft electoral roll.

She said training of Booth Level Officers (BLOs), preparatory work and printing of forms would be carried out from June 20 to 29. Subsequently, BLOs would undertake a house-to-house verification drive from June 30 to July 29, during which they would visit every household three times, provide enumeration forms and obtain signatures from voters.

The draft electoral roll will be published on August 5. Claims and objections can be filed between August 5 and September 4, while the final electoral roll will be published by the Election Commission on October 7, she said.

Explaining the documentation requirements under the SIR process, Ms. Mannikeri said voters whose names already figure in the electoral roll and who were born before July 1, 1987, would be required to furnish any one of the 12 approved documents establishing their date and place of birth.

Those born between July 1, 1987, and December 2, 2004, must provide proof of their own date and place of birth along with documents establishing the date and place of birth of either parent. Persons born after December 2, 2004, will have to submit proof of their own date and place of birth as well as s