SIR: Election Commission extends deadline in Maharashtra until August 8
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The Election Commission on Friday extended the enumeration deadline for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Maharashtra till August 8, The Indian Express reported.
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The poll panel gave booth level officers 10 additional days to complete the house-to-house verification of voters, extending the deadline from what was July 29.
The extension was granted after Maharashtra’s chief electoral officer sought additional time, citing heavy rainfall in the state.
The draft voter list will now be published on August 17 instead of August 5, The Hindu reported.
Under the revised timeline, claims and objections against exclusions can be filed between August 17 and September 16. Earlier, the deadline for filing the objections was September 4.
The final electoral roll will be published on October 19 instead of October 7.
Data shared by the Election Commission showed that only 35.1% of the enumeration forms had been digitised in the state as of Friday. The digitisation rate was 15.3% in Mumbai city, 8.3% in its suburbs and 8.4% in neighbouring Thane district.
Yavatmal district had recorded the highest form digitisation rate of 67.6%, followed by Ratnagiri at 65.9%.
Maharashtra is among the 16 states where the voter roll revision is underway in the third phase of SIR.
On Wednesday, the poll panel had extended the timelines for the exercise in Delhi, Punjab, Karnataka and Telangana.
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