Citizens of nowhere: G.B. Road’s sex workers at risk of exclusion in ongoing SIR
Sex workers in Delhi's G.B. Road area face potential exclusion from voter rolls due to the Election Commission's strict documentation requirements for the special intensive revision. Many women lack the necessary records to prove their identity or residency, threatening their ability to vote.
The ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Delhi has cast an ominous shadow over women sex workers in Garstin Bastion (G.B.) Road brothels. Many of them don’t possess the documents listed by the Election Commission (EC) to verify their details or an extract of the previous SIR with their names or those of a blood relative for mapping, given that they were trafficked to the brothels at an age when they were too young to remember their place of birth.
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