EC's Contentious Electoral Roll Drive Kick-Starts in Bihar

The First Draft of the Revised Roll Will Be Ready by Early August

- Anirban Guha Roy

PATNA: Over 10,000,000 pre-filled enumeration forms were distributed among voters in Bihar, covering around 30% polling stations across 78,000 booths in the state as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), launched by the Election Commission on Sunday.

"We have covered around 25-30% of the booths in Bihar today [Sunday]. We are going to intensify the exercise in the coming days so that all electors get the forms," said Bihar's chief electoral officer Vinod Singh Gunjiyal. In many districts, the district magistrate-cum-district election officer (DEO) also met voters while distributing the forms and explained the modalities of the SIR to voters.