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Ghaziabad to find deleted voters via Census 2027 door-to-door enumeration
Ghaziabad to find deleted voters via Census 2027 door-to-door enumeration
The Story in Brief
The Ghaziabad district administration will use the Census 2027 door-to-door enumeration between December 1 and January 4 to identify residents aged 18 and above whose names are missing from electoral rolls and connect them with booth-level officers for enrolment. This follows the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise that deleted 5.7 lakh names, 20.2% of the roll, from Ghaziabad, with 3.16 lakh deletions in the Sahibabad constituency alone. District magistrate Ravindra Kumar Mandar chaired a meeting on Monday to review preparations, directing officials to work in coordination to ensure no eligible citizen remains excluded.
The initiative comes as the Special Summary Revision (SSR) is underway, with the draft roll published on November 17 and claims and objections accepted until December 16. The final roll is to be published on January 1, 2027. Separately, Gurugram district has published booth-wise lists of voters excluded during SIR, 453,079 electors, and is allowing those marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicate to submit enumeration forms to electoral officers by the final roll date of November 30. Uttam Pradesh is due for assembly elections in three months.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Both articles report on opportunities for voters excluded in the SIR to re-enrol, Times of India’s Ghaziabad story leads with the district’s plan to use Census 2027 enumeration to spot omitted voters, citing the Opposition’s ‘vote theft’ charge against the NDA over the deletions. Hindustan Times’ Gurugram story is narrower, focusing on the ECI’s mechanism for ASDD-category voters to re-submit forms, omitting any political context. The core difference: Times frames deletions as a controversy the administration is addressing, Hindustan Times treats re-enrolment as a routine procedural fix. Between December 1 and January 4, the Census door-to-door exercise in Ghaziabad will be watched for its success in reconnecting the 5.7 lakh deleted names.
Coverage: 2 sources, 1 government-critical, 1 neutral
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com (government critical), hindustantimes.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
Update, 10 November 2026: this story now draws on 2 sources.
