Half Of SIR Forms Out, But Just 2% Go Digital The Nagpur district administration has reached the halfway mark in distributing Enumeration Forms under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, but progress in digitizing the data remains sluggish, with only about 2% of the information uploaded to the digital system so far. Officials have acknowledged the need to accelerate the digitization process to ensure the smooth completion of the exercise, which is critical for updating electoral rolls ahead of upcoming elections. Booth Level Officers (BLOs), who are responsible for collecting the forms through door-to-door visits, continue their efforts across the district. However, the administration has shifted focus to enhancing online submissions and synchronizing field data collection with digital processing. A senior official emphasized that the goal is to ensure seamless integration between fieldwork and digitization, stating that completed forms are being uploaded as they are received. The official also highlighted the importance of strengthening coordination between BLOs and personnel handling digital data entry to improve efficiency. Collaboration with the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s property tax department has been introduced to leverage local knowledge for better field coverage. Staff from the municipal corporation, familiar with residential layouts and occupancy patterns, are assisting BLOs in locating households, particularly in areas with frequent tenant movement. Despite this support, BLOs remain the sole verifiers of the data collected. Field-level challenges have further slowed the process.#nagpur_municipal_corporation #nagpur_district_administration #special_intensive_revision_sir #booth_level_officers_blos #voters_eci_gov_in
1 In 3 Nagpur Voters Still Unmapped In Pre-SIR Exercise, Only 60% City Mapped Against 77% In Rural Belt Nagpur: Nearly one in every three voters in Nagpur district is yet to be mapped in the ongoing pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with urban constituencies emerging as the weakest-performing segment ahead of the actual SIR drive scheduled to begin from June end. Constituency-wise data accessed by TOI shows that of Nagpur district's current electorate of 46.41 lakh voters, 31.76 lakh electors have so far been mapped with records from the previous SIR exercise, taking the overall mapping to 68.45%. This means around 14.64 lakh electors — nearly 32% of the district's total electorate — are still unmapped at the pre-SIR stage. The data, as of June 5, reveals a sharp urban-rural divide in the exercise. While the six rural Assembly constituencies together recorded a mapping percentage of 77.81%, the six city constituencies lagged significantly behind at 60.08%. In actual numbers, close to 9.78 lakh electors in urban constituencies remain unmapped compared with around 3.86 lakh in rural segments. Among individual constituencies, Nagpur West recorded the lowest mapping at 56.17%, followed by Nagpur North at 57.39% and Nagpur East at 59.82%. Nagpur South-West and Nagpur South also remained around the 60.90% mark. On the other hand, rural constituencies such as Umred and Ramtek posted the highest mapping percentages at 87.20% and 87.50%, respectively, while Katol recorded 83.70%. The exercise has also identified a substantial number of "electors with anomalies" — cases involving duplication, shifting, deaths or discrepancies requiring further scrutiny. Across the district, around 8.65 lakh electors have been flagged under the anomaly category, including 4.#nagpur_district #nagpur_east #special_intensive_revision_sir #nagpur_west #nagpur_north
