FOLLOWING completion of digitising 100% of the voter roll count sheets in all the eight assembly constituencies of Jabalpur district under Special Intensive Revision (SIR) programme, effors are now underway to identify voters whose counting forms have not yet been received and as a result, have been included in the list of adsentees or transferred voters.

 

BLOs are going through the names of these ASDR category voters, which has resulted in slight decrease in the number of voters in this category. Out of 19,25,472 voters in the dis trict, 2,60,591 are such voters whose counting forms have not been received or are uncollectible. These voters include 51,004 deceased voters, 75,895 absent voters and 1,18,303 permanently relocated voters. If the counting forms are not received, the names of such voters may be removed from the voter list. According to the District Election Office, voters who have not yet com pleted their counting forms still have two days left.

 

Such voters can com plete and submit the counting forms to their BLOs on December 10th and 11th, otherwise their names will not be included in the voter list. According to the District Election Office, among the voters whose count ing forms have been digitized, the number of voters whose names have not been mapped to the 2003 voter list has also decreased. As of now, the number of voters with no mapping has dropped to 107,638. Continued efforts to map these unmapped vot ers to the 2003 voter list may further reduce this number.

 

As per details, voters (absent, transferred, deceased, and repeat) whose counting forms have not yet been received include 21,552 in Patan Assembly constituency, 24,340 in Bargi, 50,674 in Jabalpur East, 26,835 in Jabalpur North, 41,378 in Jabalpur Cantt, 46,480 in Jabalpur West, 30,844 in Panagar, and 18,488 in Sihora Assembly constituency. These ASDR voters constitute 13.53 percent of the district's total voters.