Amid 10-day Haryana SIR survey extension, Gurugram tops list for pending submissions
Haryana has extended its special intensive revision voter-household survey by 10 days after more than 1.5% of electors had not submitted enumeration forms by the deadline.
- The Election Commission of India oversees the preparation and revision of electoral rolls in India.
- Haryana’s Special Intensive Revision is a house-to-house voter survey intended to collect enumeration forms and update electoral rolls.
- Haryana has extended the voter survey by 10 days because more than 1.5% of voters had not submitted enumeration forms by the deadline.
- The revised schedule sets 31 July for draft rolls, 30 August for claims and objections, and 3 October for final publication.
What happened
Haryana’s house-to-house voter survey under the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls has been extended by 10 days to 24 July. The extension came after more than 1.5% of voters had still not submitted enumeration forms by the deadline.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Haryana said the Election Commission of India did not want eligible voters to be left out.
UPSC may test the role of the Election Commission of India in preparing and revising electoral rolls, the objective of preventing eligible voters from being left out, and the administrative challenges in a large household survey.
