Over 83% voters have submitted their enumeration forms as part of Bihar SIR, says Election Commission
So far, 1.59% electors have been found to be deceased, 2.2% permanently shifted and 0.73% persons were found to be enrolled at more than one place. Therefore, 88.18% of electors have either already submitted their enumeration form or died or retained their names at one place or permanently shifted out of their previous place of residence.
As a result, only 11.82% of electors now remain to submit their filled-in enumeration forms and many of them have sought time to submit these documents in the coming days, the EC said in an official statement.
The last date of submission of the filled enumeration forms is on July 25.
The poll body said nearly one lakh Booth Level Officers (BLO) will soon begin their third round of door-to-door visits. Their efforts are being augmented by the 1.5 lakh Booth Level Agents (BLA) appointed by all political parties, each one of whom can certify and submit up to 50 enumeration forms per day.
To ensure that no eligible urban voter is left out of the voters' list, special camps are also being set up in all the 5,683 wards of all 261 urban local bodies (ULBs) of Bihar.
For the electors who may have temporarily migrated out of the State, focused efforts through newspaper advertisements and direct contact with such electors are being made to ensure that they are able to fill their enumeration forms well in time and have their names also included in the draft forms to be published on August 1. Such electors can easily fill up the forms online using their mobile phones through the ECINet app or through the online form on the EC's website.
They can also send their forms to the concerned BLOs through their family members or through any online means, including WhatsApp or similar applications, the statement said.
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