New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday (February 6) has extended for the fourth time the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh. The poll body has given a 30-day extension to the exercise in the state, with claims and objections now being allowed till March 6, and the final electoral roll now to be published on April 10.While the draft electoral roll in Uttar Pradesh, according to the initial schedule was to be published on December 9, it was later extended to December 16. Following this a second extension was granted, with the draft roll to be published on December 31. On December 30, a third extension was granted which said that the draft roll would be published on January 6 and the period of claims and objections would be from January 6 to February 6. In the draft electoral roll published last month 2.89 crore voters’ names had been left out, which amounted to nearly 18.70% of the total electorate of the state. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer, Uttar Pradesh said that till now a large number of women, youth are not yet part of the electoral rolls and urged them to file claims and objections to include their names in the list.“Now we have one more month, and we have also made arrangements for those people who do not know much about the internet or technology. BLOs will be present at the polling booths, all necessary information will be available there, and Forms 6, 7, and 8 will be available. Whoever needs them can take them… We request all women, youth and the remaining voters to come forward,” he said.In December, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath pointed to a large number of “missing” voters in the ongoing SIR and told Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers that majority of those left out are BJP voters.“There is a gap of four crore missing voters. They are not your opponents, rather 90% of them are your voters,” he was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.Uttar Pradesh is among the 12 states and Union Territories where the SIR is currently underway including the poll-bound states of West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry. Assam, where assembly elections are also due, is not part of the present SIR process, and only an intensive revision is being held.Nearly 58 lakh electors – approximating 7.6% of the state’s total registered voters – have been stuck off from the previous electoral rolls in West Bengal. Similarly, 24.08 lakh electors, or 8% of the state’s electorate, were deleted from the rolls in Kerala. The SIR in Tamil Nadu entailed 97.3 lakh deletions.