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The Commission firmly believes that inclusive, healthy, pure & transparently prepared electoral
rolls are the foundation of free, fair and credible election. It has been the priority of the
Commission that no eligible citizen is deprived of their right to be included in the electoral roll
and also to maintain electoral rolls error free & without any duplicate and ineligible entries, to
the extent possible.

Special emphasis was given on pre-revision activities, including training of all the field officials

involved in the SSR activities and the intensive House-to-House verification by the Booth Level
Officers (BLO). The activity of House-to-House visit was carried out by the BLOs during the pre-
revision period to identify all un-enrolled eligible citizens, prospective electors with reference to
the subsequent qualifying dates, multiple entries/dead electors/permanently shifted electors
and for the correction of entries in the electoral roll. Instructions were also issued to the electoral
machinery for the identification and deletion of dead/permanently shifted/duplicate electors.

Focus areas in the preparation of Electoral Rolls:

● Transparency
● Purity
● Health
● Inclusivity

In view of the upcoming general elections the Commission had directed all electoral officials to
take all out efforts to chalk out a plan to achieve the objective of pure, inclusive and healthy
electoral roll. The measures taken are as follows:

Transparency Measures
o Frequent and regular meetings with political parties at various stages of SSR at the level
of Chief Electoral Officers, District Election Officers and Electoral Registration Officers.
o Sharing of copies of draft and final Electoral Rolls to recognized political parties free of
cost.
o Inviting, publicising and regular updation of the list of claims and objections to all political

parties on the websites and ERO’s notice board
o Deletions were made strictly in accordance of SoPs and after due verification of Form 7
and field verification.

Purification
o Deletion of duplicate/multiple entries.
o Deletion of names of dead voters.

o Removal of discrepancies in EPICs.
o Enhancing image quality of photos of electors in ER.

Improve health of the electoral roll
o Special efforts to bridge gaps in the following parameters
o Electors/Population ratio
o Gender ratio
o Age Cohort (specially the 18-19 & 19-20 age groups)

Inclusivity:
o Identification of PwDs in the electoral database to facilitate PwD voters on poll day.

o Special emphasis on the enrolment of youth right from educational institutions.
o Targeted drives to increase enrolment of female electors to improve Electoral gender
ratio.
o Focused strategy for the increasing enrolment among Third Gender community.
o Special efforts for 100% enrolment of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG).

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