BLOs to sit at 3,209 Indore booths till Dec 11 for voter list additions and deletions

The special summary revision (SSR) of electoral rolls began in Indore district on Thursday. For a month, booth level officers (BLOs) will sit at the 3,209 polling booths across all nine Assembly constituencies of the district. During this period, applications can be made to add or delete names in the voter list or to shift registration. The process will run until December 11.

A meeting was held at the Collector's office on Thursday to explain the process. The district election office briefed office-bearers of political parties and handed them the draft voter list. According to the list, the district currently has 25,36,870 voters, of whom 12,75,964 are men and 12,60,810 are women. Ninety-six voters fall in the other category.

Deputy District Election Officer Navjeevan Panwar said people whose names are not on the voter list can apply under the prescribed procedure. Young voters can also apply to be enrolled. He said BLOs will sit at all booths for a month and will carry out the work of adding and deleting names.

Before the SSR, polling booths in the district were rationalised, reducing their number from 3,210 to 3,209. Six booths with fewer voters were merged and five new booths were created, leaving one booth fewer. Indore-2 lost two booths, Indore-4 one and Sanwer three. Four new booths were created in Rau and one in Sanwer.

According to the voter list, women outnumber men in the Indore-4 Assembly constituency, with 1,11,192 women and 1,11,142 men. The gender ratio there is 1,000. In Indore-3 the ratio is 997 and in Indore-2 it is 996.

Claims and objections will be recorded until December 11 during the SSR. All claims and objections will then be disposed of by December 28. The final voter list will be published on January 4. Young people who turn 18 on January 1, 2027 will have their names included in the list. Names of ineligible voters, those who have died and those who have permanently moved elsewhere will be removed, and duplicate entries will also be corrected.