The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday held special camps at polling stations across Delhi to help voters respond to notices issued during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
The exercise comes after 298,431 hearings were conducted among the 3.16 million voters who received notices over unmapped entries and logical discrepancies. The Delhi chief electoral officer's latest figures show that 134,485 Form 6 applications were received under the SIR process between August 31 and September 26.
Poll officials assist voters at special camps
Booth-level officers (BLOs) were deployed at the camps to help residents fill forms, submit documents and address queries related to the revision. The election office has also said BLOs will visit the homes of voters who received notices, collect documents and upload them on the ECINet platform for consideration by electoral registration officers.
The CEO office said the 298,431 hearings conducted so far relate to cases involving unmapped voters and logical discrepancies.
HT visited camps at BK Dutt Colony, Govindpuri Extension, Krishna Nagar and Golf Links on Sunday. The first three had relatively longer queues, while the camp at a community centre in Golf Links remained largely empty, with only two people arriving by 1 pm.
At a private school in South Delhi's Govindpuri Extension, several residents of DDA's Asha Kiran Apartments, a rehabilitation society for economically weaker sections, approached BLOs for assistance.
Tej Singh, a BLO, said the residents had been shifted from Bhumiheen camp, a slum cluster in Kalkaji, to Asha Kiran Apartment, which is part of Tughlaqabad, but had not changed their address. As a result, he said, the BLO may have visited their old address and found nobody there. He said at least 2,000 names were missing from the draft electoral rolls and that residents had been asked to submit Form 6 along with an electricity bill and flat allotment letter.
Forty-four-year-old Dipti Surana was also at the camp with her marriage certificate. She said she had not been married during the 2002 SIR and her surname was then Kundalia. She received a notice because of the mismatch and said she was unsure which additional document she needed to submit.
At a government school in Aliganj near Lodhi Road, 39-year-old Kiran Devi brought her mother's voter ID card dating to 1995 after being asked to provide a document establishing her parents' identity. She said her father had died and officials told her the voter ID could not be accepted because it belonged to the 1995 electoral list, while the current exercise was based on the 2002 SIR.
In Krishna Nagar, Sanjay Singh submitted a photocopy of his 50-year-old wife's school marksheet after her name appeared as "Minu" instead of "Meenu".
The family of B S Vohra, 61, president of the East Delhi RWA joint front, was also among those issued notices. Vohra said four of his five family members had received notices, while he did not because his documents were in order. His daughter, however, received a notice over a discrepancy in her name.
Form 6 applications cross 134,000 under SIR
Apart from the Form 6 applications received under SIR, the poll body recorded 127,218 Form 6 applications between January 1 and September 25.
The daily bulletin showed that, up to September 26, 1,351 Form 6A applications, 51,471 Form 7 applications and 260,768 Form 8 applications had been received.
Form 6 is used to seek inclusion in the electoral roll, Form 6A is meant for Indian citizens residing abroad, Form 7 is used for deletion or objections, and Form 8 is used for shifting residence or modifying electoral-roll entries.
The election office has also clarified that the list of documents attached to notices is not exhaustive. Electoral registration officers can consider other relevant documents on a case-by-case basis during hearings.
The ECI has extended the deadline for filing claims and objections by a month. Voters can now submit claims and objections until October 30, while their disposal has been extended until November 30. The final electoral roll will now be published on December 4.
Separate special camps for young electors will be held at colleges, universities and other educational institutions on September 29 and 30. The camps will focus on enrolling voters aged 18 to 25, with eligible students being encouraged to submit Form 6.
Rekha Gupta targets Opposition over SIR row
Amid the continuing political dispute over the revision exercise, Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday accused the Opposition of trying to "mislead" people about the functioning of the poll panel.
At a press conference, Gupta alleged that the Opposition's demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation was an attempt "to divert public attention".
"The ECI has placed each issue before the public with complete transparency and the decisions have been taken unanimously. Everyone has the right to ask questions in a democracy, but such questions should be based on facts. Merely making political allegations and damaging the credibility of a constitutional institution is not appropriate," Gupta said.
The Indian Express has reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded written objections at least 14 times over 10 months concerning the commission's handling of voter rolls and software.
Referring to Rahul Gandhi and other Opposition leaders, Gupta alleged that their statements "amounted to treason" and said cases of treason should be registered against them.
The Delhi CEO's office has published the revised SIR schedule and related information, including notices issued to voters and the status of claims and objections, on its official SIR 2026 page.