Gurgaon: One in every three registered voters in the city could disappear from electoral rolls after the extended deadline for digitising special intensive revision (SIR) enumeration forms ended on Friday, leaving the city with the highest proportion of unverified electors in Haryana.Of the city’s 15.6 lakh registered voters, 4.6 lakh — or 29.3% of the electorate — has been marked absent, permanently shifted, dead, enrolled elsewhere or under other categories that make them liable for deletion after the statutory claims and objections process. Despite Election Commission extending the deadline by 10 days to July 24, only around 4% additional voters completed the verification in this period.SIR has been an especially challenging exercise in the city because a large section of the population lives inside condominiums that don’t give block level officers (BLOs) the kind of smooth access that, say, a regular residential colony in Delhi would.Neighbouring Faridabad is looking at the state’s second-highest rate of deletions. Of its 18.9 lakh registered voters, 5.2 lakh (27.4%) remain unverified. This means the two NCR districts alone account for nearly 9.7 lakh voters who could be removed from the revised rolls.Across Haryana, 33.8 lakh of the state’s 2 crore electors — 16.4% of the electorate — has been classified as unverified. Final deletions, however, will be carried out only after claims and objections are examined.The trend is heavily concentrated in urban districts. After Gurgaon and Faridabad, the highest proportions of unverified voters are in Panchkula (23.3%), Sonipat (19.4%), Panipat (18.9%) and Rohtak (18.8%), reflecting higher population movement in urban and industrial centres. By contrast, largely rural districts recorded far lower figures, with Fatehabad at 7.1%, Mahendergarh 8.5%, Charkhi Dadri 9.4%, Sirsa 9.7% and Bhiwani 9.9%.Assembly-wise data shows that migration — rather than deaths — has driven Gurgaon district’s high unverified numbers. In Gurgaon constituency, 96,838 voters were found to have permanently shifted, 50,909 were absent during verification, 17,561 were dead and 7,217 were already enrolled elsewhere. Badshapur showed a similar pattern, with 79,498 shifted, 51,969 absent, 20,590 dead and 10,298 enrolled in another constituency.The picture changes in the district’s rural segments. Pataudi recorded 13,321 shifted voters, 9,285 absent and 12,088 dead, while Sohna reported 24,917 absent, 14,443 shifted and 10,722 dead, indicating significantly lower migration than the city’s urban seats.Deputy commissioner Uttam Singh said the draft electoral rolls will be published on July 31, after which voters can file claims and objections for a month till Aug 30 for inclusion, deletion or correction of entries. Officials will dispose of all claims by Sept 28, before publishing the final electoral roll on Oct 3.
