Visakhapatnam completes SIR digitisation of 20.23 lakh electors; draft roll on July 31

The Visakhapatnam district administration has completed the digitisation of enumeration forms of all 20,23,009 electors as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-2026 , and the draft electoral roll will be published on July 31, District Collector M. Abhishikth Kishore has said.

In a statement, the Collector said the distribution, collection and digitisation of enumeration forms had been completed for voters across 1,980 polling stations in the district. The database had been updated after incorporating details of voters who had submitted enumeration forms, as well as those categorised as absent, shifted, deceased or duplicate (ASDD). Officials also carried out a fresh field verification of voters who had initially been placed in the ASDD category after enumeration forms were not received by July 14, improving the quality of the electoral database.