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BENGALURU: Even arsenic Supreme Court's verdict connected the validity of SIR of electoral rolls successful poll-bound Bihar volition find its pan-India rollout, Karnataka is acceptable to motorboat the workout arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.Sources successful the bureau of Karnataka's main electoral serviceman said preparations for SIR are astir complete. CEO V Anbukumar, however, said the authorities volition proceed lone aft ceremonial instructions from EC, which is expected to denote the nationwide rollout soon.In Karnataka, the revision volition beryllium based connected the 2002 electoral rolls - erstwhile the past intensive revision took spot - with documentation required lone from those added later.
Discussions with governmental parties are complete. The CEO has finalised grooming modules for territory predetermination officers and electoral registration officers, and datasets of electoral rolls person been dispatched. DEOs and EROs are grooming 58,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) for house-to-house verification.
BLO kits with enumeration forms and handbooks volition beryllium sent adjacent week, with preparations expected to decorativeness by Sept 25.
Document norms alteration by age: those calved earlier 1987 indispensable supply 1 of 12 specified documents, with Aadhaar accepted lone arsenic individuality proof. Applicants calved betwixt 1987 and 2004 request 2 documents - 1 for commencement details and different of a parent. For those calved aft 2004, documents of the applicant and some parents are required; if 1 genitor is simply a overseas national, passport and visa details are needed.During the 90-day thrust to region invalid entries from Karnataka's 5.4-crore elector list, BLOs volition usage 2 QR-coded forms. No additions, deletions oregon code changes volition beryllium allowed aft SIR notification.
