Over 2 lakh electors removed from draft electoral rolls in Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur DM-cum-district election officer Nawal Kishor Choudhary, while releasing the revised electoral rolls, said the total electors in the district before the SIR were 24,00,414 and now it has reduced to 21,55,802. He said the SIR was conducted by 2,263 booth level officers (BLOs) in the district and supervised by 250 supervisors besides other officials including himself.
The DM said the names of 62,852 dead and 1,25,388 electors who had migrated to other places were removed.
Besides, 26,566 electors whose names were found at two places were also removed from the published draft electoral rolls, he said.
Referring to the increase in the polling booths from the existing 2,263 to 2,678, the DM said 415 polling booths were added to the district in view of the Elections Commission's directive to constitute one polling booth for every 1,200 numbers of electors.
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