Chandigarh, Feb. 9 -- Ahead of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls scheduled in March, the UT administration has detected over 9,300 irregular entries, including around 5,400 deceased and nearly 3,900 duplicate voters, while mapping data using the 2002 electoral rolls.

The administration has completed 62.5% of the exercise to ensure up-to-date electoral rolls by removing all ineligible voters and the process will conclude by the end of this month, shared deputy commissioner and district election officer Nishant Kumar Yadav.

Chandigarh has approximately 6.4 lakh registered voters, while the estimated population of the city is around 13.64 lakh. Officials said the current exercise is aimed at aligning voter data with g...