Ranchi: Disposal of cases flagged for logical discrepancies under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has varied widely across Jharkhand, with an 85.31% gap between the best- and worst-performing assembly constituencies, data till Wednesday showed.Lohardaga emerged as the best-performing constituency, disposing of 98.85% of its cases. Ranchi, on the other hand, had cleared only 13.54%, leaving it at the bottom of the state’s disposal chart.Of the 45.50 lakh logical discrepancy cases identified across the state, 22.86 lakh, or 50.25%, had been disposed of by Wednesday. Another 22.64 lakh cases remained pending. The disposal rate had risen from 44.75% on Monday, with around 2.50 lakh additional cases cleared in two days.Ranchi had disposed of 6,735 of its 49,740 logical discrepancy cases, leaving 43,005 pending. Pakur followed with a disposal rate of 13.76% and 73,609 pending cases. Daltonganj, Godda and Bhawanathpur had cleared 18.05%, 18.12% and 18.40% of their cases, respectively.Besides Lohardaga, Chakradharpur recorded a high disposal rate of 98.71%, followed by Jagannathpur at 96.08%, Majhgaon at 95.62% and Chaibasa at 94.78%. Mahagama recorded the biggest improvement over the two-day period, with its disposal rate rising by 14.44 percentage points. Ghatshila and Tundi registered increases of 9.78 and 8.25 points, respectively.The disposal of no-mapping cases was slower. Of the 14.04 lakh cases in this category, 4.48 lakh, or 31.89%, had been disposed of, leaving 9.56 lakh pending. The rate rose from 27.72% on Monday, with 58,482 additional cases cleared.Chhatarpur had the lowest disposal rate in this category, at 2.13%, having cleared 385 of 18,086 cases. Hussainabad and Panki disposed of 2.26% and 2.58%, respectively. Chakradharpur topped the category at 87.56%, followed by Jagannathpur at 80.23%.The SIR exercise involves checking current electoral roll entries against earlier rolls and examining cases where records cannot be mapped or contain inconsistencies. Officials have clarified that the figures represent cases disposed of and updated in the election system, and do not by themselves indicate additions or deletions from the final roll.“Electors per assembly constituency are not uniform across the state, so there is variation in progress in terms of percentage disposal. But all EROs and AEROs will complete their SIR task within the schedule,” chief electoral officer K Ravi Kumar said. The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on Nov 30.
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