00:01And interestingly, while the election commission faces the heat from the opposition, it has quietly changed many of the procedures
00:08in the SIR after it became public that the two election commissioners had raised multiple objections on many issues with
00:15the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar.
00:18Some of these changes have now been implemented in Delhi, one of the states badly impacted by the SIR. Aishwarya
00:25Paliwal gets us a report on what the EC is now doing to try and ease the procedure for voters
00:31who find their names off the electoral rolls. Take a look.
00:41The election commission, under fire from the opposition over the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, has eased norms over
00:50the last few weeks to help voters.
00:54Changes to Form 6, that mandated mapping with parents or grandparents in 2002 list, is dropped for non-SIR states.
01:02Booth-level officers in Delhi will visit homes of voters who were issued notices for logical discrepancy.
01:10Technical experts are checking if ECINET software is compliant with laws.
01:15Special camps will be held to get eligible deleted voters back on the rolls.
01:21Special summary revision has started, which means first-time voters can be added now.
01:26Restrictions have been put on the number of Form 7s for deletions that can be filed by a person.
01:32And machine-readable copies of electoral rolls will be provided to the parties.
01:40Some of these changes are already applied in Delhi, which saw 47.57 lakh voters deleted from the list.
01:48And another 33.13 lakh issued notices.
01:52Booth-level officers are now tasked with adding voters to the list.
02:24BLOs are visiting homes.
02:26Of those who have got notices due to discrepancies.
02:31A very proactive approach of door-to-door visits and verification and document collection.
02:37Very convenient, you can say, mechanism was updated onto the ECINET portal,
02:44which ensured that even without mandating any document collection,
02:49the ERO can pass a speaking order.
02:55The EC says, issuing notices does not mean deletion from the list.
03:18One of the things that the election commission definitely has done,
03:21and a lot of people are saying they have done so because of the opposition pressure,
03:25is that they have eased out the rules.
03:27The BLOs we spoke with also say the same thing,
03:30that the rules, in fact, have been eased out.
03:32And this is helping them.
03:34This, in fact, is helping in getting names added to the voter list.
03:39This is the final say.
03:40The rules have been relaxed and the rules have now been made much easier.
03:44With camera person Ajay, this is Aishwarya Paliwal reporting for India Today.
