Overview

• The Commission’s filing says excluded names and reasons—death, permanent shift or untraceable, and duplicates—are now online for all 38 districts and displayed at panchayat and block offices.
• The two-judge bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi will review the exercise on August 22 after ordering booth-wise, EPIC-searchable publication, wide publicity, and acceptance of Aadhaar with claims.
• The Bihar CEO has received 70,895 claims and objections so far, with 3,449 disposed, and 2,28,793 new 18+ applicants have sought inclusion since August 1; the EC says no political party has filed objections yet.
• Aggregated EC data attribute over 55% of the roughly 65 lakh deletions to permanent shift or untraceable status, about 34% to deaths, and 10.8% to multiple enrolments.
• A data analysis of constituencies with the highest deletions finds women—especially those aged 18–39—disproportionately removed under “permanently shifted,” raising concerns about disenfranchisement of migrant women.