Nagpur: More than 14.44 lakh names in Nagpur district will be under the scanner on Monday as Election Commission publishes the draft electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration phase providing the first clear picture of the voter list after the massive verification exercise.Nearly one in every three electors in the district was classified as “uncollectable” during the enumeration. Of Nagpur’s 46,38,589 registered electors, signed Enumeration Forms (EFs) of 31,94,573, or 68.87%, were received and digitised. The remaining 14,44,015, or 31.13%, fell into different uncollectable categories.However, being classified as uncollectable does not automatically mean deletion. Election officials said eligible electors whose names do not figure in the draft will get an opportunity to establish their eligibility through subsequent claims, objections and notice process.The largest chunk comprises 5,46,149 electors classified as absent or untraceable, accounting for 11.77% of the district electorate. Another 5,30,058 were recorded as permanently shifted, while 2,40,305 were reported deceased. The exercise also identified 1,18,012 duplicate voters or those already enrolled elsewhere, besides 9,491 cases in the ‘other’ category.Alongside the draft electoral roll, election authorities will publish a separate ASDD list, covering electors categorised as absent, shifted, deceased or duplicate, as well as cases where anomalies or discrepancies surfaced during verification. Notices will be issued in eligible cases requiring further verification, allowing electors to appear before the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) and submit prescribed documents to establish their eligibility.Officials further added that the draft roll is, therefore, not the final voter list. Under the Election Commission’s revised SIR schedule, claims and objections can be filed from Aug 31 to Sept 30, giving electors a month to check their names and electoral particulars and seek inclusion or correction where required. Notice proceedings, scrutiny and disposal of claims and objections will continue until Oct 29, following which Maharashtra’s final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on Nov 4.Officials said, following the final voter list, eligible electors whose names are missing from the roll can also apply for inclusion by submitting Form 6 after the entire SIR process is over.The scale varies sharply across Nagpur’s assembly constituencies. Nagpur West recorded the highest proportion of uncollectable electors at 40.24%, followed by Nagpur Central at 38.02%, Nagpur South at 37.80%, Nagpur South West at 37.35%, Nagpur East at 36.60% and Nagpur North at 36.58%.The proportion was considerably lower in several rural constituencies, with Umred at 15.79%, Katol at 17.46% and Ramtek at 19.10%, highlighting a sharp urban-rural contrast in the SIR findings.
