The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday extended the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi, revising the schedule for the exercise and pushing the publication of the final electoral roll to October 27.

According to the order, booth level officers (BLOs) will continue house-to-house verification until August 17, instead of concluding earlier on August 8. Rationalisation and re-arrangement of polling stations will also be completed on August 17, while the draft electoral roll will now be published on August 24, instead of August 17.

The Commission has scheduled the period for filing claims and objections from August 24 to September 23. Notices and disposal of claims and objections will take place between August 24 and October 22, following which the final electoral roll will be published on October 27, instead of October 19, the order stated.

This is the second revision to the SIR timeline. Earlier, the ECI had extended the house-to-house verification period to August 10 and rescheduled the publication of the draft electoral roll to August 17, while retaining September 15 as the qualifying date for the exercise. The latest revision further extends the verification period by a week and shifts all subsequent stages, including the publication of the final electoral roll, by 10 days.