New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Wednesday extended the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Punjab, Telangana, Karnataka and Delhi.
In a letter to the chief electoral officer of Delhi, the poll authority said the draft electoral rolls will now be published on August 17 instead of August 5.
Similarly, the house-to-house visits, which were scheduled till July 29, will now continue till August 8.
Similarly, in Punjab, the house-to-house visits by booth level officers (BLOs) will continue till August 3. Earlier, the house-to-house visits were to conclude on July 24. The draft electoral rolls in the state will now be published on August 13 in place of July 31. The final rolls will come out on October 12 in place of October 10.
In Telangana, the draft rolls will be published on August 10, while the final rolls will be published on October 12.
In Karnataka, the house-to-house visits by the BLOs will continue till August 8 in place of July 29. Draft rolls in the state will be published on August 17 in place of August 5.
The final electoral rolls in the southern state were to be published on October 7, but according to the revised schedule, they will be published on October 19.
Delhi and the three states besides Haryana and Andhra Pradesh are part of Phase 3 of the SIR which was rolled out on May 14.
On Tuesday, EC also extended the SIR schedule for Haryana and Andhra Pradesh. In both Haryana and Andhra Pradesh, the house-to-house visits will continue till July 24, while the earlier deadline was July 14.
The draft rolls in the two states were earlier scheduled to be published on July 21. Now, they will be published on July 31.
The SIR phase 3 is conducted in 16 states and three union territories. The states included in this phase are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Telangana, and Uttarakhand. The Union Territories covered are the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Chandigarh, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Once Phase 3 is completed, the entire country, except for Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, will be covered under the SIR rollout.
Due to various reasons, the SIR in the previous phase also witnessed frequent tweaking in schedules.
