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| Election Commission Meeting Held on Saturday; orders review of voter-roll changes | | Key Decisions Taken |  New Delhi,September 26 (Scoop News)-In cases where notices have been issued during the ongoing SIR on account of persons being unmapped or having logical discrepancies, BLOs will visit the residences of such persons for collection of the required documents and thereafter upload the same on the ECINet for consideration and decision by the ERO. Such persons need not be called to the ERO/AERO office for a hearing.
Only in exceptional circumstances, as decided by the ERO, a hearing may be held, preferably through online mode. Any adult member of the family may be authorized by the elector to attend the hearing on their behalf, if required. Facilities for conducting online hearings shall be strengthened.
Help Desks/Special Camps: DEOs (District Election Officers) will stablish an adequate number of help desks and/or hold special camps, as per requirement, for persons residing in night shelters, labourers, poor and homeless persons, and other vulnerable groups.
Forms for SIR and Non-SIR Periods: The declaration attached to Form 6 for SIR has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court. During the non-SIR period, the forms applicable under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, shall be used.
Field officers have role-based access to the ECINET system as per their statutory powers. A Committee headed by Sr. Deputy Election Commissioner (DEC) and including an independent expert from IIT/IIIT will review the ECINET to double-check that it complies with the provisions of the Acts and Rules and submit report to the Commission. Various upgradations of the portal have already been made based on the inputs from State CEOs in the past few months. In case, any further flexibility is required by the field officers, that will be made operational. Henceforth, all the new initiatives about IT modules and portals will be discussed in the Committee of Officers (COO) before approval by the Commission.
In view of the request received from CEO Delhi, the period for filing claims and objections has been extended by the Commission till 30th October, 2026. The period of disposal of notices and claims & objections has been extended till 30th November 2026. Also, as per the request received from CEO Maharashtra, the period for filing claims and objections in Maharashtra has been extended by the Commission till 12th October, 2026. The period of disposal of notices and claims & objections in Maharashtra has been extended till 10th November 2026.
For all Commission’s meeting, agenda will be circulated in advance and minutes will be issued.
APARs {Annual Performance Appraisal Reports} of all the officers will be completed within the stipulated time frame, i.e., 31st December every year.
Approval of the Commission will be taken for foreign trips of the officers.
All directions issued by the Commissioners to the officers of the Commission shall be meticulously complied with.
SIR has already been completed in 20 States/UTs including Bihar and West Bengal. Any person whose name has got left out during SIR or thereafter, and any person including young/ first-time voter, may apply to the concerned ERO, for inclusion of their names in the electoral rolls under the process of continuous updation. CEOs have been directed to facilitate the same. The CEOs, DEOs, EROs will immediately launch a special drive for enrolment of these electors.
It is further reiterated that
The letter to Cabinet Secretary was not related to any policy matter of the Commission or IT division but related to working of an officer on deputation to ECI. The work re-distribution orders issued by the concerned officer were not actually implemented after the orders of the two Commissioners and the oversight over the IT division by the DEC was never actually withdrawn.
In the recent months, the Commission has taken numerous decisions including SIR across the country. The order for the SIR issued on 24.6.2025 for all the States/UTs, starting with Bihar, followed by West Bengal and 30 other States/UTs was issued with the unanimous approval of the Commission. The same has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India vide its order dated 27.5.2026. The schedule for SIR for 12 States and UTs was issued on 27.10.2025 and those for 19 States/ UTs was issued on 14.05.2026 with the unanimous approval of the Commission. The final figure of number of electors will be known only after final publication in the remaining 12 states of Phase-III.
The CEO Goa has directed concerned BLOs to conduct house to house visits to left out voters to collect their forms. 81 voters out of 97 have already filled Form 6 for inclusion.
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