Booth Level Officers (BLOs) in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad have pivoted their focus to adding fresh voters to the electoral lists, officials stated. This shift comes after the draft electoral rolls were made public and follows the removal of a significant number of names classified as absent, shifted, dead, or duplicate.
Stringent New Process for Voter Inclusion
The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has introduced stricter rules for inclusion. Officials confirmed that simply submitting Form 6, the standard application for adding a name to the electoral roll, is no longer sufficient. Every new applicant must now also submit a mandatory declaration form.
This declaration requires the applicant to state that their name is linked to the base electoral roll of 2003. This linkage can be established through the applicant's own previous registration or through the registration of their parents or family lineage. "The declaration is compulsory now. Without it, Form 6 will not be processed," explained a BLO, adding that they are guiding residents on how to trace this connection.
District Magistrate of GB Nagar, Medha Roopam, told TOI that the SIR's purpose was to cleanse the voter list of impurities. "Now that the SIR exercise is halfway done, the intention is to ensure that the new voter names — which are also added to the list — are already linked to the 2003 electoral roll, so that there will not be a need to do a special intensive revision again and again," she said.
Major Clean-Up of Electoral Rolls
The push for new additions follows a substantial clean-up operation. In the draft rolls, over 20% of ASD voters were removed—24% in Noida and 29% in Ghaziabad. This local clean-up is part of a massive state-wide exercise in Uttar Pradesh.
On a macro level, a staggering 2.89 crore (28.9 million) electors have been struck off Uttar Pradesh's draft electoral roll. This figure represents 18.7% of the state's total electorate of 15.4 crore, as recorded when the SIR began on October 27, 2025.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa provided details in Lucknow. He stated that after a comprehensive door-to-door enumeration drive across all 75 districts and 403 assembly constituencies, 12.55 crore voters out of 15.4 crore were retained. This means enumeration forms for 81.3% of the electorate were successfully received.
Deadlines and Final Roll Publication
All voters whose names are missing from the current draft roll have time until February 6 to file claims and objections to get included in the final list. Election officials emphasized that BLOs will continue their outreach in the coming weeks to assist eligible voters with the new, stricter procedure.
However, they issued a clear caution: applications that lack the mandatory declaration or fail to provide the required linkage details to the 2003 roll are likely to be rejected during scrutiny. The final electoral roll, which will incorporate these new additions after verification, is scheduled to be published on March 6.
