Delhi SIR | Digitisation crosses 50% mark, over 72 lakh enumeration forms uploaded

More than half of Delhi's electors have had their enumeration forms digitised under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, with the number of uploaded forms crossing the 72-lakh mark, according to official data. As per the Election Commission's latest status report on Monday, 72,65,605 enumeration forms had been digitised, covering 50.07 per cent of Delhi's 1,45,10,298 electors. The distribution of forms stood at 1,44,91,450, accounting for 99.87 per cent of the electorate. Outer North continued to lead in all 13 districts in digitisation with 62.82 per cent of forms uploaded, followed by South West (60.42 per cent), West (57.16 per cent), North West (56.55 per cent) and Central North (54.85 per cent).

At the other end, South East recorded the lowest digitisation at 36.39 per cent, followed by East (41.60 per cent), South (43.07 per cent), Old Delhi (46.04 per cent) and Central (46.38 per cent). In terms of absolute numbers, North East has digitised the highest number of forms at 9,63,759, followed by West (8,32,326), South West (8,03,432) and East (6,66,968). The distribution of enumeration forms has been completed in 10 districts -- South East, Old Delhi, North, New Delhi, Central, Outer North, North East, East, South and West.

Among the remaining districts, South West has achieved 99.98 per cent distribution, Central North 99.95 per cent, while North West remained the lowest at 98.58 per cent. The Election Commission has extended the SIR schedule for Delhi, allowing the booth level officers (BLOs) to continue house-to-house visits till August 8, instead of the earlier deadline of July 29. The additional time is expected to facilitate the collection of pending enumeration forms and their digitisation.

Under the SIR exercise, the BLOs distribute enumeration forms to electors for verification of entries in the electoral rolls. The completed forms are subsequently digitised as part of the ongoing revision of Delhi's electoral rolls. Chief Electoral Officer Ashok Kumar had earlier said the Election Commission will work out a mechanism to ensure that voters whose homes have recently been demolished are not excluded from the electoral rolls. Noting that the issue had emerged ahead of the exercise, Kumar said the concern relates to electors whose registered addresses no longer exist because their houses have been demolished. Delhi has 13,033 polling booths where the Special Intensive Revision exercise is currently underway.