Noida: After SIR cut Noida’s electoral rolls by nearly 20%, the district administration will now launch a fresh enrolment drive to bring eligible voters left out of the exercise back into the fold.The campaign comes amid a nationwide row over SIR and questions over the functioning of chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with petitions challenging the exercise and Election Commission’s decision-making before the Supreme Court.The focus in Noida will be on those most likely to have slipped through the rolls — young and first-time voters, women, homeless citizens and persons with disabilities. Officials said the drive will also target anyone whose name is missing despite being eligible.“The administration seeks to improve the state’s elector-population and gender ratios,” an official said.The scale of the gap is stark. Noida’s final roll, published on April 10, had 15.1 lakh voters, against 14.2 lakh in the draft list. About 86,000 names were added during the revision, but the overall exercise resulted in roughly 3.6 lakh names being removed from the district’s rolls.
The final electorate comprises 8.2 lakh men, 6.8 lakh women and 50 third-gender voters. The district’s gender ratio is 828, while its elector-population ratio is 54.59.“The ‘continuous revision’ is going on in Noida. BLOs are already functioning, so eligible people whose names have been left out can get themselves enrolled by filling up the required form and submitting it,” said deputy collector and in-charge assistant district election officer Arun Kumar.The scale of the deletions was even larger in neighbouring Ghaziabad. The district had 28.4 lakh registered voters in Oct 2025, before SIR, but its final roll recorded 22.6 lakh voters, excluding the Dhaulana assembly segment — a drop of about 5.7 lakh names. The final electorate comprises 12.7 lakh men, 10 lakh women and 130 third-gender voters.Ghaziabad will also intensify its enrolment campaign during the ongoing continuous revision. Additional district magistrate Anjani Kumar said the district magistrate had asked officials to make additional efforts to include women from different categories as well as first-time voters. Officials will also identify other eligible citizens whose names are missing from the rolls and facilitate their registration.The intensified campaign follows an Oct 1 directive from the chief electoral officer of Uttar Pradesh, asking districts to identify eligible citizens missing from the rolls and improve both elector-population and gender ratios.Officials said Jan 1, 2026, is the qualifying date for the current revision.The administration will rope in officials from the departments of women welfare, higher education, secondary education, health, empowerment of persons with disabilities, rural development and youth welfare departments to widen the campaign.For residents, the process is straightforward. Those whose names are missing can approach their local BLO at designated polling locations, tehsil offices or the district election office. They can also apply online through the Election Commission’s ECINET app or voter services portal.“Form 6 is for fresh inclusion, while forms 7 and 8 cover other electoral roll applications,” an official said.The push comes as SIR remains politically and legally contentious. Two election commissioners have reportedly raised objections to decisions linked to the exercise, while petitions before the Supreme Court question the functioning of Kumar and aspects of SIR. The court has sought answers from the Election Commission.“For Noida, the immediate objective is to ensure that an eligible citizen does not lose the right to vote merely because their name is absent from the roll. No voter should be left behind,” an official said.
