Special Intensive Revision and risk of voter exclusion
Quick dive
- The editorial reports that 13.37 crore names were struck off at the draft stage across 30 States and Union Territories in three SIR phases.
- It records deletion rates of 8.3% in Bihar, 12.9% in Phase 2 and 17% in Phase 3, with Delhi at 32.8% and Telangana at 21.7%.
- The ECI Manual describes intensive revision as a denovo process, but the editorial says the present exercise shifts the burden onto electors to trace themselves or a parent to an earlier intensive roll.
- The editorial highlights re-entry through Form 6, “logical discrepancies” flagged by software, and the risk that people unable to respond may be dropped without adequate notice or a speaking order.
- exam_relevance: tests Article 324, electoral-roll revision, universal adult franchise, natural justice and Form 6 through the article’s exact deletion figures; it echoes the Supreme Court’s Lal Babu Hussein (1995) protection against sweeping voter-document demands and recurring UPSC questions on ECI powers.
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