Urban Form Returns Lag in Voter Roll Revision as Tamil Nadu Opens Two-Day Registration Camps

Overview

• Election Commission officials report that collection of enumeration forms is much lower in urban centres than in rural areas during Phase II of the Special Intensive Revision across nine states and three Union territories.
• Cities including Lucknow, Kanpur and Noida show weaker participation, echoing patterns seen in Patna during Bihar’s earlier roll clean-up.
• Phase II began on November 4, with draft rolls published everywhere except Uttar Pradesh, while Assam is running a separate special revision.
• Tamil Nadu’s revision has deleted about 97.37 lakh names, leaving roughly 5.43 crore registered voters; authorities have received 7.37 lakh applications for inclusion and 9,535 for deletion.
• Tamil Nadu is holding special voter-registration camps on January 3–4, with correction camps set for January 18 and final rolls due on February 17.