India, Oct. 17 -- Booth level officers (BLOs) in Delhi will carry out a re-verification of all 4.7 million names removed during the special intensive revision (SIR) in the Capital till now, chief electoral officer (CEO) Ashok Kumar said on Friday, effectively ensuring a second round of checks before voters are deleted from the final voter roll.

The drive, which has begun in some areas and is set to end on October 30, will see roughly 15,000 BLOs - many of them government school teachers who've been working on SIR for almost four months now - making the rounds of hundreds of thousands of households across the Capital.

"During the enumeration exercise, booth level officers visited the residences of each and every voter at least three time...