Election Commission's Bihar drive doesn't find 35.7 lakh voters at their addresses

NEW DELHI: With astir 35.7 lakh electors, comprising 4.5 per cent of Bihar's full 7.9 crore electorate, not recovered astatine their recorded code contempt the booth level officers (BLOs) having completed their 3 mandatory visits, the EC will, starting Thursday, stock their details with territory presidents and 1.5 lakh booth level agents of the governmental parties, truthful that they tin corroborate the nonstop presumption of specified electors by July 25.EC, successful a connection issued Wednesday, said conscionable a small implicit 6.8 per cent of remaining electors crossed Bihar present request to taxable their enumeration forms. It shared that the enumeration forms of Bihar's 88.7 per cent electorate person been received and 82 per cent uploaded connected ECINet. Accounting for the 4.5 per cent electors not recovered astatine their address, of which 1.6 per cent are astir apt deceased, 2.2 per cent astir apt permanently shifted and 0.7 per cent identified arsenic enrolled arsenic aggregate places, astir 93.2 per cent of Bihar's 7.9 crore electors person already been covered nether SIR.Welcoming the people's effect to the SIR exercise, main predetermination commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said: "I convey each eligible electors of Bihar for actively participating successful the much-needed cleaning of electoral rolls".

The past day for electors to taxable their filled-out enumeration forms is July 25. All electors who crook successful their forms, with oregon without implicit documentation, volition beryllium included successful the Bihar draught electoral rotation to beryllium published connected Aug 1, 2025.

The documents tin beryllium added during the claims and objection period.Sharing nonstop advancement of SIR truthful far, EC Wednesday said astir 7 crore electors person submitted their enumeration forms, with 6.5 crore forms uploaded connected ECINet app/portal. However, astir 35.7 lakh electors were not recovered astatine the addresses recorded against their sanction successful the electoral roll; these see 12.5 lakh electors who are astir apt deceased, 17.4 lakh astir apt permanently shifted; and neary 5.8 lakh electors enrolled astatine aggregate places.As of 6 p.m. Wednesday, enumeration forms of 54.1 lakh electors were remaining to beryllium received. EC has appealed to radical who person temporarily migrated extracurricular Bihar to capable their enumeration forms online, either utilizing the ECINet app connected their mobiles oregon via the voters' portal. "They whitethorn besides download the pre-filled enumeration signifier and stock the filled forms with BLOs straight oregon done household via WhatsApp oregon immoderate medium," it added.To guarantee that eligible electors are not near out, peculiar camps are being acceptable up successful 5,683 wards of the state's 261 municipality section bodies.