SIR in Gujarat: More than 17 lakh deceased voters found on electoral rolls
Ahmedabad (PTI): The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Gujarat has revealed that more than 17 lakh deceased voters were still included in the existing voter list across the state, a release by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has stated.
According to the release issued on Thursday, the SIR exercise started in Gujarat on November 4 with booth-level officers (BLOs) distributing enumeration forms in their designated areas.
The campaign will continue till December 11.
"In the last one month, enumeration forms have been distributed to more than five crore voters registered in the 2025 electoral roll. In most of the 33 districts, 100 per cent of the distribution has been completed. Work on digitising the returned forms is currently underway. So far, the digitisation work has been completed in 12 out of 182 assembly constituencies," it said.
These include Dhanera and Tharad of Banaskantha district, Limkheda and Dahod (ST) of Dahod district, Bayad of Aravalli district, Dhoraji, Jasdan and Gondal of Rajkot district, Keshod of Junagadh district, Mehmadabad of Kheda district, Khambhat of Anand district and Jalalpore of Navsari district.
Dang district is at the forefront in this work with 94.35 per cent digitisation of the counting forms, said the release.
"During this exercise, it was revealed that 17 lakh deceased voters were still included in the electoral roll across the state. More than 6.14 lakh voters were found absent from their addresses. It has been noticed that more than 30 lakh voters have permanently migrated," the release said.
BLOs found more than 3.25 lakh voters in the "repeated" category, which means that their names figured at more than one place, the release stated.
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PU student dies by suicide in Hubballi after securing 71% in PUC results
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Hubballi: An 18-year-old student died by suicide in Siddakalyan Nagar of Unkal in Hubballi, reportedly distressed over her II PUC exam results.
The deceased has been identified as Shravani Maruti Kale, a student of Kanakadasa College in Vidyanagar.
According to reports, Shravani had secured 71% in the Commerce stream in the II PUC exams. She was said to have aimed for a perfect score and was upset that she did not achieve the expected result.
Family members said she was a bright student. Her father works as an auto driver, and she used to stay at her grandparents’ house to focus on her studies. She had set a target of scoring 600 out of 600 and had even expressed this goal publicly.
After the results were announced, she reportedly did not speak to anyone and later took the extreme step, her uncle Maruti said.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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