UP SIR deadline ends today, CEO seeks two-week extension from EC to wind it up

During a recent meeting with the CEO on the SIR process, the representatives of political parties had also sought an extension in the deadline, alleging undue pressure on BLOs to complete the process, it is learnt.

The CEO informed that the digitisation of 99.24 percent of enumeration forms in the state has been completed.

While 80.29 percent of the forms have been received with the signatures of voters and other family members so far, 18.85 percent have been marked as “uncollected” with remarks such as “deceased, permanently relocated, absent or duplicate voters”.

Officials said of 18.85 percent of forms, nearly 2.91 crore voters have been marked as “uncollected”, 8.22 percent (1.27 crore) as “permanently relocated their place of residence”, 5.49 percent (84.73 lakh) as “absent”, 2.98 percent (45.95 lakh) as “deceased”, 1.5 percent (23.69 lakh) as those who have got registered as voters in other places.

Also, 0.62 percent (9.58 lakh) received the counting forms but have not yet returned them yet . At least 76 percent of counting forms received from the voters on the basis of the 2003 voter list have been completed, it is learnt.

The CEO has directed all the district election officers to further expedite the mapping process and complete it as soon as possible, officials said.

They have also been told that the voters whose names are not included in the 2025 voter list and who did not receive the counting forms should be asked to fill up Form 6. Similarly, young people who will turn 18 on January 1, 2026, will be asked to fill up Form 6 to enrol as voters.

The digitisation of counting forms has been completed in 14 districts, 132 assembly constituencies and 143,509 polling stations of the state, the officials said.

The Chief Electoral Officer also made an appeal to all recognised political parties to cooperate in the verification of the “dead, permanently relocated, absent, and duplicate” voters. He said that the BLOs will provide the list of voters collected by December 12, to their respective booth-level agents. This list will be available on the websites of the CEO and the district electoral officers.