- 3.01 lakh names eliminated after SIR
Umesh Chandra Tripathi
Maharajganj! There has been a significant change in the voter list after Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Maharajganj district. The complete variety of voters has decreased as a consequence of deletion of three.01 lakh names. The administration has clarified that eligible voters can get their names added once more by way of Form-6.
After a particular thorough revision of the voter list in Maharajganj district, a significant change has come to mild in the voter list. Under this course of, names of three,01,022 voters have been faraway from the voter list of the district. Before the revision, a complete of 19,92,459 voters have been registered in Maharajganj, which has now diminished to 16,91,437.
District Magistrate Santosh Kumar Sharma informed in a press convention on Tuesday that the ultimate voter list being ready after particular and thorough revision will probably be revealed on March 6, 2026. He clarified that the residents whose names have been eliminated in this course of can get their names added to the voter list once more by way of Form-6 in the event that they fulfill the eligibility circumstances. For this, it will likely be necessary to use inside the time restrict.
Let us let you know that there are a complete of 5 meeting constituencies in Maharajganj district, for which 5 electoral registration officers have been appointed. To help them, 133 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers are already employed, whereas the deployment of two,241 extra Assistant Officers has been proposed. Along with this, 2,241 Booth Level Officers (BLO) have additionally been appointed for upkeep and verification of voter list.
After realignment, a complete of 1,145 polling stations have now been created in the district. Keeping in thoughts the comfort of voters, 157 new polling locations and 04 new polling facilities have additionally been added. The administration says that its goal is to cut back crowding on the day of voting and to supply handy preparations to the voters.
According to the present knowledge, male voters in the district are 10,53,139, feminine voters are 9,39,257, third gender voters are 63, the entire variety of registered voters is 15,33,484. In the yr 2025, the entire inhabitants of the district is 34,22,894, which incorporates 17,61,683 males and 16,61,211 females. The gender ratio of the district has been recorded at 892 and EP ratio is 58.02. Apart from this, 3,052 service voters are additionally registered.
On this event, Additional District Magistrate Prashant Kumar and District Information Officer Prabhakar Tripathi have been additionally current. The administration has appealed to the frequent residents to examine their identify in the voter list on time and if the identify has been deleted then safe their voting rights by filling Form-6 with none delay.