Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Sh. A. Sreenivas informed that the Election Commission of India had organized a meeting of Chief Electoral Officers of all states on September 10, in which directions were given to implement Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across the country. In this direction, the Haryana CEO organized a meeting with all DEOs.
Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Sh. A. Sreenivas told all District Election Officers that in places where the post of BLO is vacant, appointments should be made soon and their ID cards should be issued, so that there is no hindrance in the work of preparing the new voter list. Apart from this, officers and employees related to SIR should be given training.
The Chief Electoral Officer gave these directions today to the District Election Officers and Electoral Registration Officers through video conferencing regarding SIR. He asked the District Election Officers and Electoral Registration Officers to ensure compliance with the instructions issued from time to time by the Election Commission of India regarding SIR.
He said according to the guidelines of the Commission regarding SIR, the new voter list will be prepared. The Commission has directed that all BLOs will match the current voter list of Haryana with the voter list of the year 2002 by October 20. If a voter's name is registered in both voter lists, they will not be required to provide any documents.
Sh. A. Sreenivas, while giving instructions to all DEOs, said that BLOs will go to every voter’s house to fill the enumeration form for the new voter list. For this, two copies of the form will be given to the voter to fill. Out of these, one copy will remain with the voter and the other copy will be taken by the BLO for preparing the new voter list.
He said as per the directions of the Election Commission of India, rationalization of polling stations will be done on the basis of the maximum number of 1200 voters. If there are more than 1200 voters, then a new polling station should be created.
He also directed that meetings should be organized from time to time with representatives of all recognized national and state-level political parties located in the district, and the list of booth level agents should be obtained from all. In addition, the printing of enumeration sheets and their timely availability to BLOs should be ensured.
The Chief Electoral Officer said that the voter lists of the year 2002 and the finally published voter list of the year 2024 are available on the department’s website for the convenience of the general public. The Chief Electoral Officer appealed to all registered voters of the state, the youth who are eligible to become voters, and representatives of all political parties to extend their cooperation in the SIR being carried out to prepare an error-free voter list of the state.