{
  "id": 15454524,
  "title": "‘Why is there a discrepancy’: Queries, confusion mark Ghaziabad SIR special drive",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/why-is-there-a-discrepancy-queries-confusion-mark-ghaziabad-sir",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-18T17:08:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Indian Express",
    "slug": "the-indian-express",
    "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/ghaziabad-voter-registration-indirapuram-high-rise-societies-special-intensive-revision-sir-deletions-form-6-form-8-blo-drive-10927198/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Sunday, a woman in her late 60s, visibly distressed, sat at her residential society office in Ghaziabad's Indirapuram, clutching her son's passport-sized photo. Her son, meanwhile, was outside taking photocopies of her Aadhaar Card and Class 10 marksheet. The woman had been struck off the electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in April, leaving her and her son to fill out Form 6, which registers a new voter. The family's voting slips lay in her small purse. The SIR exercise, which lasted 166 days from last October, resulted in the deletion of 2.05 crore names in Uttar Pradesh, with Ghaziabad and Lucknow recording the highest percentage of deletions at 20.24% (5.75 lakh) and 22.89% (9.14 lakh) respectively.\n\nThe Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer had announced that Special Summary Revision (SSR) camps would be set up on October 17 and 24, but on Sunday, Ghaziabad district held a special drive for voter registration. Booth level officers (BLOs) were instructed to verify eligible voters, both at polling booths and through door-to-door visits. One woman recounted how her husband had passed away, yet the electoral roll had erroneously removed her children's names, too. She had to call her son from an office meeting to fill out Form 6, lest officials questioned their residency.\n\nA BLO, who had been in charge of the area since 2014, provided reassurance that her names would be reinstated on the list. To expedite the process, she instructed the son to sign a document and present his photo. The administration has clarified that Form 6, in use currently, should be used, not the specific Form 6 for SIR, and no mapping is required for new voter registration. On Sunday, 7,109 Form 6 were received, comprising 6,546 offline forms and 563 online.\n\nMany residents, both first-time voters and those affected by the SIR, sought clarification on whether their names were still on the final list. One resident, who recently moved from South Delhi to Ghaziabad, was perplexed about the discrepancy in his and his wife's names. The officials, swamped with queries, browsed through the electoral list, recognizing some residents from their old apartments. They informed these residents of the need to fill out Form 8 to correct their entries in the existing electoral rolls.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "2.05 crore names deleted in Uttar Pradesh SIR, Ghaziabad and Lucknow worst hit",
    "Special Intensive Revision (SIR) lasted 166 days from October last year",
    "7,109 Form 6 registrations received on Sunday, including 6,546 offline"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}