EC extends SIR deadline; final roll on Oct. 19
Election Commission of India extends Delhi special intensive revision deadlines after slower digitisation of enumeration forms.
AI generated- The Election Commission of India extended the door-to-door verification deadline in Delhi’s special intensive revision of the electoral roll to 8 August 2026.
- The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer’s office reported that nearly all of Delhi’s 1.45 crore electors had received enumeration forms, but only about 14.35% of forms had been digitised.
What happened
The Election Commission of India extended the deadline for door-to-door verification in Delhi’s special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll to 8 August 2026 after slower digitisation of enumeration forms. The house-to-house verification began on 30 June 2026 and was earlier scheduled to run until 29 July 2026.
The Election Commission of India also revised the remaining schedule. The draft roll will now be released on 17 August 2026 instead of 5 August 2026. Claims and objections will be accepted from 17 August 2026 to 16 September 2026, disposed of by 15 October 2026, and the final roll will be published on 19 October 2026.
The Election Commission of India’s revision of Delhi’s electoral-roll timetable can be framed around Article 324, the operational challenges in large-scale voter-list verification, and the trade-off between speed and accuracy in electoral-roll preparation.
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