The District Election Office, Gurgaon, organised a training programme for electoral registration officers to streamline the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The session was held at the PWD Rest House and attended by officers from South Haryana.State-level master trainer and Rohtak Tehsildar Sarla Kaushik conducted the session, explaining procedures related to special revision, new voter registration, corrections, disposal of claims and objections, and ensuring transparency and error-free electoral rolls.A total of 56 officials participated, including SDM Gurgaon Parmjeet Chahal, SDM Badshahpur Sanjeev Singla, SDM Pataudi Dinesh, SDM Manesar Darshan Yadav, SDM Sohna Akhilesh, OSD Simran from the divisional commissioner’s office, CTM Sapna Yadav and election tehsildar Rajneesh Sehrawat. The SIR began with house-to-house verification, checking of photographs, addresses, and deceased voters. In Haryana, election offices have already completed field verification, BLO mapping, and preliminary roll corrections.In Gurgaon district, officials have updated entries of shifted voters, started bulk correction of errors, and initiated school-level campaigns to register first-time voters (18–19 years). Claims and objections are being received continuously through both offline forms and the NVSP/ECI voter portal. The publication of draft electoral roll has been published and at present authorities have invited claims and objections. Haryana currently has approximately 2.03 crore voters. Gurgaon district has over 15.5 lakh voters. In between 2014 to 2019 nearly 1.6 lakh new voters were added in Gurgaon district while in between 2019-24 around 90,000 voters were added.Booth level officers (BLOs) all over the state have started matching the names of voters with the voters’ list of 2002, as a part of the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.The process is for voters whose names were not listed in the 2002 electoral rolls, but whose parents’ or grandparents’ names were listed. The BLOs across the state are visiting households door-to-door to collect and verify voter information.
