You have a hard deadline. When a Special Intensive Revision publishes its draft roll and your name is missing, you must file a claim for inclusion in Form 6 to your Electoral Registration Officer within the claims and objections window, which is normally 30 days from the date the draft roll is published. Miss it and you may have to wait for the next revision.
Quick answer. A draft roll is not final. If your name was dropped, submit Form 6 with proof of age, residence, and citizenship to the ERO before the window closes. You can do it online on the Voter Helpline app or voters.eci.gov.in, or on paper through your Booth Level Officer.
A Special Intensive Revision is a deep clean of the electoral roll. Booth Level Officers go house to house, verify each existing voter, and remove entries for people who have died, moved away permanently, registered twice, or could not be verified.
The problem is that genuine voters get caught in the net. If the enumeration form did not reach you, if you were travelling, or if a document did not match, your name can land in the deletion list even though you are a real, eligible voter at that address.
That is exactly what the claims and objections stage is built to fix. No name can be finally removed without this process, and courts have allowed intensive revision only on the condition that this hearing right is respected.
Ravi, a factory worker in Ludhiana, found his name gone from the draft roll after an intensive revision while he was away for three months. He searched the portal, confirmed the deletion, and filed Form 6 online with his birth certificate, an electricity bill, and his passport, all before the 30-day window closed. He saved the acknowledgement. When there was no update after two weeks, he filed an RTI to the ERO asking for the status. His name was restored in the final roll.
File a claim for inclusion in Form 6 with your ERO within the claims and objections window, usually 30 days from the draft roll publication. You can submit it online at voters.eci.gov.in or the Voter Helpline app, or on paper.
Normally 30 days from the date the draft roll is published. The Election Commission can fix a shorter period, but it cannot be less than 15 days. Check the exact dates in your state notice.
Form 6 is for inclusion of a name that is missing. Form 8 is only for correcting details in an entry that already exists. To restore a deleted name, use Form 6.
No name can be finally deleted without the claims and objections process. You have a right to a hearing before the ERO. If you were not heard, that is a strong ground for appeal to the District Election Officer.
Proof of age, proof of ordinary residence at the address, and proof of Indian citizenship, from the specific list the Commission publishes for that revision. One acceptable document for each category is usually enough.
Appeal to the District Election Officer under Section 24(a), then to the Chief Electoral Officer under Section 24(b). If the claim is simply not acted on, an RTI to the ERO asking for the status and reason often gets it moving.
Yes. There is no fee to file a claim for inclusion in the electoral roll, whether you do it online or on paper through your Booth Level Officer.