GURUGRAM: Election officials in Gurugram have been directed to prioritise pending voter-list cases and complete the required checks before the final electoral roll is published. Divisional Commissioner Ravi Prakash Gupta issued the instructions at a 15 October review, as Haryana works through the hearing and disposal stage of its Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
The district announcement calls for fact-based examination of pending cases, transparent handling of claims and objections, and regular monitoring. It follows a statewide video conference chaired by Chief Electoral Officer A. Sreenivas. The release gives no updated Gurugram pendency count or new district camp schedule. Gupta asked officials to ensure eligible names are included and to take action on ineligible entries through the prescribed process. He also called for necessary procedures to be completed before publication, rather than leaving cases unresolved.
The local figures have different reporting dates
The last local hearing figures in these releases are from 8 October. Gurugram then reported 4,75,477 notices generated, with 7,992 hearings pending, or 1.68 per cent. About 636 pending cases had been heard at a special camp the previous day. These are dated administrative figures, not a count of people removed from the roll. They should not be presented as the number of cases still awaiting a hearing on 16 October.
A separate 1 October statement from Haryana’s Additional Chief Electoral Officer recorded 39,985 Form 6 applications from Gurugram, the highest district total in the state, and 13,767 Form 8 applications. Form 6 concerns new registration; Form 8 covers corrections, address changes and replacement voter cards. Those totals measure applications received. They do not establish how many applications were approved or how many electors were ultimately added.
The distinction between these figures matters when following an individual case. An application count measures requests, while a pending-hearing count measures work awaiting examination. Neither tells a resident whether their own entry has been accepted, corrected or deleted. An individual notice and the decision on that case are more relevant than a district-wide total.
The published revision timetable and a pending notice
The Chief Electoral Officer’s revised schedule, announced on 29 August and reiterated in the 1 October statement, set 30 September as the end of the claims-and-objections window, 28 October for disposal, and 6 November for final publication. The 15 October Gurugram review did not announce another extension. The disposal date is the administration’s deadline for processing cases, rather than a newly opened deadline for submitting claims in this revision.
For anyone holding a notice, the Additional Chief Electoral Officer’s 1 October advice was to approach the relevant Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) with a response and the correct supporting documents. Officers were told to follow Election Commission guidelines when making decisions. The statement also directed re-examination of cases found ineligible during hearings and rejected Form 6 applications. Officials must have a valid reason before deleting an elector’s name, the statement adds. A notice therefore needs a response; it should not be treated as proof that deletion has already occurred.
Gurugram’s 8 October announcement asked notice recipients who had not supplied their documents to provide them to the relevant officials or booth-level officer (BLO). That announcement concerned special camps and doorstep collection through 9 October. Those dates have passed. Residents should contact their own election officials about a pending notice instead of treating the old camp announcement as a current appointment.
For help identifying the correct official or understanding the stage of a case, the CEO’s published guidance names the BLO and the ERO or Assistant ERO office. It also lists the Voter Helpline, 1950, and the ECINET app’s call-booking facility. These are assistance routes. Contacting a helpline does not, by itself, replace the response or documents required in a particular notice.
Dalimss News previously covered Gurugram’s electoral-form digitisation backlog and the shift towards voter-list hearings. This update concerns the later disposal stage. Readers following an older report should use the subsequently announced revision timetable and seek case-specific instructions from election officials, rather than assume that an earlier camp date still applies.
