A third of names could be deleted in Delhi’s draft SIR roll of electors

According to official data, roughly one-third of names could be deleted in Delhi's upcoming draft electoral roll of electors, which will be released next week. As of Monday evening, the final day of the enumeration phase for Delhi's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, only about 97.47 lakh (97.47 hundred thousand) electors had been collected and uploaded to the official portal.

This represents approximately 67% of the 1.45 crore (14.5 million) names on the electoral rolls when the SIR exercise commenced in Delhi. The remaining 47.62 lakh electors will be marked as "uncollectible," a category that encompasses electors who were absent, may have moved or passed away, have duplicate entries, or fall into other unspecified categories.

The draft electoral roll for Delhi will have the highest deletion rate in the country, at 33%. This is comparable to rates observed in other major urban centers, such as Gurugram (29%) and Hyderabad district (40.99%), which officials attribute to the large floating populations of migrant laborers, government employees, and white-collar private sector workers in India's larger cities.