Jharkhand: SIR camps begin operations at urban polling stations to facilitate enumeration

Ranchi, Jul 18 (PTI) The three-day special camps to assist voters with enumeration forms as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls began operations at polling stations in urban areas of Jharkhand on Saturday, an official said. The camps aim to accelerate the distribution of enumeration forms to urban voters, assist them in filling and submitting those and support mapping with the previous SIR rolls, he said. The enumeration exercise began on June 30 and will continue until July 29, with BLOs conducting door-to-door visits to distribute, collect and verify enumeration forms. Booth-level officers (BLOs) have reached over 97 per cent of Jharkhand's 2.64 crore electors under the ongoing SIR as of Friday, the official said. During the day, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Subodh Kumar inspected polling stations 271 to 283 in Jamshedpur West, and polling booths 329 to 334 in Ichagarh. Kumar urged voters to fill up the enumeration forms and submit those to the respective BLOs by July 20. “Now, only those voters remain who may fall under the ASDDF (absent, shifted, dead or duplicate, foreigner) list, those who could not submit the forms because they are living away from their polling station area, or those who have not yet received the forms due to any other reason,” Chief Electoral Officer of Jharkhand, K Ravi Kumar, said. The draft electoral rolls will be published on August 5, following which claims and objections can be filed till September 4. The claims and objections will be disposed of between August 5 and October 3, while the final electoral rolls will be out on October 7. PTI SAN RBT