Up to now, SIR has been carried out in 10 States and three Union territories. A ‘particular revision’ of electoral rolls was carried out in Assam. File | Photograph Credit score: The Hindu
The Election Fee might roll out the third and remaining section of Particular Intensive Revision of voters’ record within the remaining 22 States and Union territories, together with Delhi, after the polls to 5 Assemblies this month, officers stated.
Meeting elections are going down in Kerala, Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal this month and counting will happen on Could 4.
The officers stated Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) could possibly be rolled out after the polls conclude on April 29. One other risk is to start the huge train after the declaration of outcomes.
Up to now, SIR has been carried out in 10 States and three Union territories. A ‘particular revision’ of electoral rolls was carried out in Assam.
Apart from Uttar Pradesh, remaining voters’ lists have been revealed the place SIR was carried out.
As many as 60 crore of the almost 99 crore voters have been lined in these voters’ record clear up workouts.
The remaining almost 39 crore electors will probably be lined within the proposed train in 17 states and 5 Union territories.
On February 19, the ballot authority had requested 22 States and Union territories together with Delhi to finish preparatory work associated to SIR on the earliest because the train is “anticipated to begin from April”.
As soon as the train is accomplished, all states and Union territories will probably be lined.
In a letter to the chief electoral officers of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Ladakh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Telangana and Uttarakhand, the ballot authority stated pan-India SIR of voters’ record was ordered in June final yr.
As a consequence of a wide range of causes, SIR has seen frequent tweaking in schedules.
Like Bihar, political events had approached the Supreme Courtroom difficult SIR in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
Lately, TMC president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee personally pleaded earlier than a Bench of the chief justice of India towards the ballot roll cleanup train in her State.
Because the EC was getting ready for SIR in Bihar, its officers had claimed that a number of nationals from Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar had been discovered by its grassroots degree functionaries. However ultimately, the ballot authority didn’t share any numbers or proof of such individuals who weren’t eligible to be on the voters’ record.
Opposition events had dubbed the EC’s claims as a ploy to hold out SIR to focus on electors not aligned to BJP and its allies.
Printed – April 07, 2026 05:14 pm IST