The Special Intensive Review (SIR) of voters’ list was launched with 50,963 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) to begin a door-to-door drive to distribute census forms on Tuesday across Gujarat.
In the month-long house-to-house campaign that will continue till December 4, 50,963 BLOs will cover nearly 5.08 crore voters across the state and will distribute copies of pre-filled census forms, state Additional Chief Electoral Officer Ashok Patel said. Indian Express.
“After collecting the forms, the BLOs will upload them on a dedicated mobile application. The draft electoral rolls will be released on December 9. After that, claims and objections will be invited till January 8. The District Electoral Officer and CEO will hear and approve the claims till January 31, 2026. At the end of the entire process, the final electoral rolls will be published on February 7,” Patil added.
In a statement, the CEO’s office said Gujarat is among the 12 states and union territories where the Election Commission of India has announced the schedule for SIR. The SIR in Gujarat will be conducted a few months before the local body elections and two years before the Assembly elections scheduled by the end of 2027.
In Ahmedabad district, a total of 5,524 electoral organizations joined the process of distributing forms to 62,59,620 voters from 21 Assembly constituencies.
Ahmedabad District Election Officer and Collector Sujit Kumar also held a meeting with representatives of political parties in Ahmedabad and were informed about the entire process. “From today, BLOs in Ahmedabad district will distribute census forms to voters according to their allotted Assembly constituency. Following this, the filled forms will be returned from voters after four days,” a statement from the CEO’s office said.
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