Nearly 7 lakh voters in southeast Delhi face exclusion from draft electoral roll
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Nearly seven lakh voters in South East Delhi could be left out of the draft electoral roll scheduled to be published on August 24 as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
More than 47 lakh voters across the capital are expected to be excluded at the draft stage.
Data from the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer’s office showed that enumeration forms for 97.47 lakh of Delhi’s 1.45 crore registered electors had been collected and uploaded by Monday. The remaining 47.62 lakh, or about 33% of the electorate, will be classified as “uncollectible”.
The category includes voters who were absent during the exercise, those believed to have moved or died, duplicate entries and cases listed under “Other” reasons. Voters whose forms were not submitted can file claims and objections after the draft roll is published.
South East Delhi is expected to be the most affected district. Only 56.32% of enumeration forms were digitised there. The district includes Okhla, Sangam Vihar, Badarpur, Jangpura, Tughlakabad and Kalkaji, and has a significant Muslim population and several low-income neighbourhoods inhabited by migrant workers.
The district had 15.5 lakh registered electors before the revision, with nearly seven lakh now expected to be missing from the draft roll.
Booth Level Officers said some migrant workers had completed the SIR process in their home states, including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, while residents said others struggled to access assistance to complete and submit their forms.
In Tughlakabad, only 100,323 of 192,419 registered electors had their forms digitised, a rate of 52.14%.
New Delhi district recorded a digitisation rate of 60.76%, while South Delhi and Central Delhi recorded 61.32% and 61.96%, respectively.
Outer North Delhi recorded the highest rate at 75.68%, followed by South West Delhi at 73.16%. North East Delhi, which has the largest electorate at 18.7 lakh, recorded a rate of 70.94%.
The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on October 27.