Ranchi: With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll kicking off across the state on Tuesday, chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar said the exercise is a participatory, transparent process audited at every level, with provisions for appeal.Addressing the media from Nirvachan Sadan, he said, “A total of 2,64,63,236 voters will be participating in the process. Each voter will get two enumeration forms; one will go to the Election Commission and the other will remain with the voter concerned.”Meetings of booth level officers (BLOs) and booth level agents were held across the state, and enumeration forms were made available to BLOs of all polling stations.Kumar said a two-day social media campaign informed citizens about SIR facts. On Day 1, posters and videos were shown and read to voters through electoral literacy clubs. On Tuesday, SIR facts were publicised through district handles, media and digital creators using #JharkhandSIR .During the verification phase from Tuesday till July 29, BLOs will visit homes with pre-filled enumeration forms. A total of 31,892 BLOs will be engaged for the process.Voters must verify the forms, fill in details related to their previous SIR, and submit them to BLOs. Voters need not provide documents while filling in the form. Migrant voters may contact BLOs online; eligible family voters may fill forms for absent voters. Mapping will be verified through a two-tier process: first by the BLO supervisor and then by the electoral registration officer/assistant ERO.Kumar said SIR is only for eligible citizens and non-Indians should not participate. Every eligible citizen submitting an enumeration form will be included in the draft roll to be published on Aug 5. Those not yet mapped with the previous SIR should share date of birth details for themselves, either parent or both parents. So far, 82.1% of voters have been mapped.He said names in five categories — absent, permanently shifted, dead, duplicate and non-Indian — will be excluded from the draft roll. Referring to Article 326, Kumar said no eligible citizen will be left out and no ineligible person added to the roll, with phase-wise information shared with political parties and on the CEO’s website.

