Ranchi: Residents who had participated during the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls since it began on June 30 made a last-minute dash to polling stations across the city on Sunday, searching for booths, checking names in draft rolls and submitting forms for corrections and fresh enrolment.The rush, on the second day of the Election Commission’s latest special camp, relieved booth level officers (BLOs), who said their efforts were finally yielding results.Roma Kumari of Khelgaon Chowk, who had turned 18 before the SIR was launched in Jharkhand but had not enrolled, rushed to her polling station to submit Form 6 as a new voter.At Surendranath Centenary School in Dipatoli, which houses eight polling stations, the turnout was higher than on Saturday. BLO Sunita Kumari Toppo said residents were seeking corrections through Form 8 and applying for enrolment through Form 6.At an adjoining booth, retired Army personnel Ram Pramod Singh went from one BLO to another, seeking to shift his family’s names from Kokar-Dipatoli to Ormanjhi, where they now reside.“The names of my wife, our two sons and mine need to be shifted to Ormanjhi, but nobody is helping us. I have been travelling more than 20 km daily for three days, but nothing has happened,” Singh said.A BLO, requesting anonymity, said Singh had to complete the correction process at his current place of residence.Eva Rani Bara, a voter at a govt school booth in Bandgari, faced another problem: each family member had been assigned a different polling station. Getting all the names shifted to one booth had become a “Herculean task”, she said.BLO Bina Kujur said many applicants seeking enrolment in Jharkhand were already registered in Bihar or other states. “They are not ready to understand that a person cannot be registered at multiple places,” she said.The claims and objections period, the second phase of SIR, began on Aug 5 and will continue till Sept 15 after the original Sept 4 deadline was extended. The EC has organised two special camps so far to encourage submission of Forms 6 and 8. Hearings in discrepancy cases are scheduled to begin Monday.
