New Delhi, July 16 -- Door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms, collection & digitisation was scheduled to end on July 29; draft electoral rolls to be published on Aug. 17

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has yesterday announced that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka will be extended by 10 days. With this extension, the very exercise scheduled to end on July 29 will be held till Aug. 8.

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Karnataka V. Anbukumar, upon whose request for extension of SIR enumeration period, the ECI took the decision, said that the SIR schedule has been extended to help electorates and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) complete the SIR exercise successfully. Accordingly, BLOs will visit t...