New Delhi: The Election Fee of India (ECI) on Thursday directed the Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) to finish the preparation of Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ lists of their respective states and Union Territories, an ECI press launch stated.
ECI’s two-day CEO convention on SIR preparedness concluded on the Indian Institute of Worldwide Democracy and Election Administration (IIIIDEM) in New Delhi.
Based on a press launch, the Fee assessed the progress of the directions issued earlier to CEOs to map the present voters to electors as per the most recent SIR of the respective states and UTs.
ECI additionally held one-on-one interactions with CEOs of poll-bound states and UTs, together with Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal.
Questions posed by CEOs had been additionally clarified following a presentation by the Committee’s senior officers on the SIR course of.
Based on a press launch, the assembly was presided over by Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar within the presence of Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.
The convention was attended by US CEOs and UTs from throughout the nation.
The assembly was a follow-up to the SIR preparatory assembly held on September 10, the place all states and UTs gave detailed displays on the variety of electors, date of qualification of the final SIR and electoral rolls of the respective states and UTs based mostly on the final accomplished SIR, a press launch stated.
This comes within the backdrop of CEC Gyanesh Kumar saying the nationwide SIR after the SIR of electoral rolls within the voting-intensive state of Bihar.
In Bihar, the whole variety of electors within the ultimate checklist is 7.42 billion, whereas the variety of electors as of June 24 this yr was 7.89 billion. A complete of 6.5 million voters had been faraway from the draft checklist. Moreover, 3.66 billion ineligible electors had been faraway from the ultimate checklist and 21.53 million voters had been added by Type 6, making a complete of seven.42 billion voters. (Ani)
