Overview
- House‑to‑house enumeration by Booth Level Officers starts in several states on June 25 with month‑long windows set by state CEOs and no extensions promised for late submissions.
- Pre‑SIR mapping shows big gaps in Telangana where officials reported 70.54% coverage and more than 99.64 lakh electors unmapped, with anomaly rates as high as 65% in Medchal‑Malkajgiri.
- States have issued tight submission deadlines such as Telangana’s July 25 cutoff and district windows like Panvel’s June 30–July 29 and Haryana’s July 14 deadline for form collection.
- Operational and legal frictions are active: three BLOs in Guntur were suspended for neglect, and the Bombay High Court heard petitions from private schools over teacher deployment while the ECI assured no coercive action for now.
- Political parties and local officials are pressing for transparency and safeguards including SMS acknowledgements, broader acceptable documents, offline arrangements for remote voters and closer supervision to reduce deletion risks before draft rolls and the claims phase.