It underlined that the claims and objections period gives an opportunity to the electors to not only rectify mistakes in the draft rolls, but also submit their requisite documents, which they may not have provided while submitting their enumeration forms.
”As per information received from the office of the CEO, Bihar, till date documents of 98.2% electors have been received,” it said.
From June 24 to August 24, in 60 days, 98.2% persons have submitted their documents.
”This means an average of about 1.64% per day. There are still eight days to go till September 1 with just 1.8% electors remaining for submission of the documents,” it said.
The Supreme Court has now asked the poll authority to accept Aadhaar or any of the 11 listed documents from people seeking inclusion in the voters’ list.
The Election Commission has asked the Supreme Court to repose faith in it for carrying out the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
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