SIR: Deletions go up in Phase 3 with more marked as ‘Shifted’ or ‘Absent’
Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) for electoral rolls across 19 Indian states shows a significant increase in voter deletions compared to previous phases. Data indicates that some states have seen over 20% of names removed from draft rolls.
Why it matters
Electoral roll integrity is fundamental to democratic processes, and large-scale deletions raise questions about administrative transparency and voter disenfranchisement.
Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 19 States and Union Territories (UTs) is witnessing notably more deletions during the enumeration phase, when compared with the States and UTs where the SIR process happened during the first two phases.
Of the 19 States/UTs, 17 have already released their draft SIR rolls except Nagaland and Tripura. The map below shows the phase in which the SIR exercise happened in each State or Union territory. SIR has not been announced by the Election Commission (EC) for Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.
The 17 States and UTs combined had a total of 36.1 crore voters in the electoral rolls before the SIR. This came down to 29.9 crore in the draft SIR rolls following the deletion of 6.15 crore (17.1%) names.
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