NEW DELHI: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters list in Delhi will begin with door-to-door visits by booth-level officers from June 30 in a transparent manner, Delhi chief electoral officer (CEO) Ashok Kumar said on Wednesday.While addressing a press conference, Kumar said that training of booth-level officers (BLOs) and printing of enumeration forms and other papers will take place from June 20 to June 29 as the in-house activity for the SIR exercise.He added that there are checks and balances at every step of the verification process, and political parties will be involved through booth-level agents (BLAs). All the information will be shared through the website of the CEO’s office.He further said that awareness activities will be carried out, and special camps will be set up to help voters submit their enumeration forms.The voters will receive two copies of the enumeration forms, one of which will be filled out and returned to the BLOs. They will also have the facility to submit completed enumeration forms online. The exercise will cover all voters aged 18 years and above by the qualifying date of October 1.According to the CEO’s office, over 13,000 BLOs will conduct house-to-house enumeration during SIR. Every existing elector, whose name exists in the electoral roll, will be provided an enumeration form (in duplicate) to be filled by them and return one copy to the BLOs.Door-to-door visits by BLOs will start from June 30 and conclude on July 29. After that, the draft electoral roll will be published on August 5. The final electoral roll after the SIR will be released on October 7.(With inputs from PTI)
