Archive · 17 Nov 2025
Uttar Pradesh Adds Maternal Home Details to Voter Forms for Duplicate Verification
Uttar Pradesh is working to make its voter list more accurate.
They are updating the voter registration forms to ask for more information, like where a woman grew up (her maternal home).
This helps them find people who might be registered to vote in more than one place.
The process also helps remove names of people who have passed away and update records for new residents.
Officials are collecting these details and checking the information on the ground.
If people need help or have questions, there's a special helpline they can call.
The goal is to make sure everyone's vote counts fairly by having a clean and accurate voter list.
Uttar Pradesh is implementing a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, including new requirements for women voters.
Women voters must now provide details of their maternal home to help identify duplicate voter registrations.
The revised forms include mandatory fields such as date of birth, Aadhaar number, mobile number, and parents' details.
Ground checks have identified numerous record mismatches and deceased voters, aiding in the purification of the electoral list.
A control room and a toll-free helpline (1950) are available to assist the public throughout the revision process.
- Who
- Uttar Pradesh officials
- What
- Implementing a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, including collecting maternal home details for women voters to identify duplicate registrations.
- When
- Ongoing, with door-to-door collection until November 4 and digitisation until December 4.
- Where
- Uttar Pradesh
- Why
- To purify the electoral list by identifying duplicate registrations, deceased voters, and new residents.
Verification Process
Public Assistance
Data Collection and Identification
Verification Process
Uttar Pradesh is enhancing its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by requiring women voters to provide details of their maternal home. This aims to identify duplicate voter registrations and verify records of deceased individuals and new residents by collecting mandatory details like date of birth, Aadhaar number, mobile number, and parents' names and e-EPIC numbers. Ground checks have revealed mismatches and deceased voters, aiding in the purification of electoral lists.
Public Assistance
A control room and a toll-free helpline (1950) have been activated to assist the public during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive in Uttar Pradesh.
- SIR Phase Start
- Instructions issued for updated verification
- New Form Details
- Date of birth, Aadhaar number, mobile number, names of parents, their e-EPIC numbers, and maternal home details for women voters
- Ground Report Findings
- 50-60 entries per area lack matching local records; significant number of deceased voters detected
- Barabanki District Voters
- 23,57,810 registered voters
- Barabanki Forms Circulated
- Nearly 98.58%
- Door-to-door Form Collection Deadline
- November 4
- Digitisation End Date
- December 4
- Public Assistance Helpline
- 1950
Sources
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Over 49 Crore Electors Receive Enumeration Forms in 12 States/UTs: ECI
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'BSP Would've Won More Seats If...': Mayawati Alleges Attempts To Defeat Party's Sole Bihar Winner
'Abnormal' Bihar outcome result of 3 'experiments': CPI-ML
Congress To Hold Meeting Of Top Office-Bearers Of States, UTs Undergoing SIR
SIR phase two: More than 49 crore electors receive enumeration forms
