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The continued Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Gujarat has revealed that greater than 17 lakh deceased voters have been nonetheless included within the current voter record throughout the State, a launch by the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has said.
In accordance with the discharge issued on Thursday (December 4, 2025), the SIR train began in Gujarat on November 4 with booth-level officers (BLOs) distributing enumeration kinds of their designated areas.
The marketing campaign will proceed until December 11.
“Within the final one month, enumeration kinds have been distributed to greater than 5 crore voters registered within the 2025 electoral roll. In many of the 33 districts, 100 per cent of the distribution has been accomplished. Work on digitizing the returned kinds is presently underway. Thus far, the digitization work has been accomplished in 12 out of 182 meeting constituencies,” it stated.
These embody Dhanera and Tharad of Banaskantha district, Limkheda and Dahod (ST) of Dahod district, Bayad of Aravalli district, Dhoraji, Jasdan and Gondal of Rajkot district, Keshod of Junagadh district, Mehmadabad of Kheda district, Khambhat of Anand district and Jalalpore of Navsari district.
Dang district is on the forefront on this work with 94.35% digitization of the counting kinds, stated the discharge.
“Throughout this train, it was revealed that 17 lakh deceased voters have been nonetheless included within the electoral roll throughout the state. Greater than 6.14 lakh voters have been discovered absent from their addresses. It has been observed that greater than 30 lakh voters have completely migrated,” the discharge stated.
BLOs discovered greater than 3.25 lakh voters within the “repeated” class, which signifies that their names figured at a couple of place, the discharge said.
Printed – December 05, 2025 08:52 am IST