DEO Singh informs representatives ofpolitical parties about revised SIR schedule

 

 

 

COLLECTOR and District Election Officer (DEO) Raghavendra Singh chaired the standing committee meeting with representatives of recognised political parties, on Tuesday. During the meeting, representatives of recognised political parties were informed about the revised schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. The District Election Officer informed that the Election Commission of India has extended the relevant dates for SIR by one week and issued a revised timeline.

 

As per the new schedule, enumeration period will now continue until December 11, rationalisation of polling stations will also be completed by December 11, updating the control table and preparation of the draft roll will be carried out from December 12 to 15, draft publication of the voter list will be released on December 16, period for filing claims and objections will be from December 16 to January 15, 2026.

 

Besides this, disposal of claims/ objections and decisions on enumeration forms will take place from December 16 to February 7, 2026 while deadline for the Commission’s approval for scrutiny of voter list standards and final publication is February 10, 2026 and final voter list will be published on 14 February 2026. Providing details of the rationalisation of polling stations, District Election Officer said that the number of polling stations in the district earlier was 2,154, which has now increased to 2,320 as approved by the ECI.

 

The 166 newly proposed polling stations include Patan constituency 29, Bargi 18, Jabalpur East 41, Jabalpur North 7, Jabalpur Cantt 13, Jabalpur West 13, Panagar 29 and Sihora 16. The meeting was attended by Shankar Shrivastava and Abhay Singh from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sanjay Yadav and Firoz Thakre from Indian National Congress and Lakhan Ahirwar and Omprakash Patel from the Bahujan Samaj Party. Deputy District Election Officer Jyoti Paraste was also present in the meeting.