At 30%, Lucknow reports highest per cent of deletions

Another 25.5 lakh, constituting implicit 1.6% of the electorate, were enrolled astatine 2 places. A full of 79.5 lakh (5.1%) voters couldn't beryllium traced portion 46.2 lakh (almost 3%) were dead.

More than 7.7 lakh (0.5%) voters didn't instrumentality filled-in enumeration forms.Lucknow reported the highest percent of deletions astatine 30%, followed by Ghaziabad (28.8%), Balrampur (26%) and Kanpur Nagar (25.5%). Lalitpur had the slightest deletions astatine 9.9%, with Hamirpur (10.8%) and Mahoba (12.4%) conscionable behind."Over 1 crore (8%) retired of 12.5 crore voters either couldn't hint their lineage connected the rolls oregon their names weren't successful the 2003 SIR list.

Such voters person been enactment successful the 'unmapped' class and volition beryllium issued notices successful the adjacent 31 days. These voters volition person to taxable 1 of 12 documents listed successful the notice," main electoral serviceman Rinwa said.

During the enumeration phase, implicit 15.7 lakh radical submitted Form 6, meant for enrolment of caller voters. These names, if valid, volition beryllium portion of the last rolls.In Lucknow, astir 5.3 lakh of the 12 lakh names deleted from the draught rolls were of voters who opted to displacement to their autochthonal places portion 4.2 lakh couldn't beryllium traced.

An authoritative said the precocious complaint of "permanently shifted voters" - astatine 8.4%, astir treble of Bihar's 4.6% - wasn't a surprise. He cited a Down to Earth survey successful 2021 that pegged the migration complaint for UP astatine astir 28.4%, doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic Bihar's 14.2%.The archetypal December 4 deadline for completion of enumeration extended doubly - archetypal till December 11 and past December 26 - aft it was recovered that a ample fig of voters were excluded from the draught rolls."The work day of draught rolls was fixed arsenic December 31, but parallel fieldwork and ECI's instructions to rationalise polling stations led to a delay," Rinwa said. Authorities volition process claims and objections till February 27.