SIR will result in recent voter record in Tamil Nadu, ECI tells Madras Excessive Courtroom

Not like Particular Abstract Revision (SSR) of electoral rolls undertaken yearly and likewise earlier than each Meeting or Lok Sabha polls, the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) to be undertaken in Tamil Nadu this yr would result in creation of recent record of eligible voters within the State, the Election Fee of India (ECI) informed the Madras Excessive Courtroom on Monday (November 3, 2025).

Distinction between SSR and SIR

Showing earlier than the primary Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan, ECI standing counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan defined the distinction between the SSR and SIR. He mentioned, the SSR retains an current record and requires solely the voters who need inclusion or exclusion from the record to make functions within the prescribed codecs.

Alternatively, the SIR requires each voter within the current record too to submit an enumeration type which could possibly be both downloaded from the ECI web site or offered to the voters by the Sales space Degree Officers (BLOs). The BLOs shall acquire one copy of the enumeration type and signal the acknowledgment of the receipt within the second copy to be retained by the voters.

The voters needn’t connect every other doc whereas submitting the enumeration type and they’d be required to take action provided that there was any mismatch between the small print stuffed by them within the enumeration type and the prevailing voters’ record. The BLOs would additionally conduct a door-to-door verification and discover out the explanations if anybody had didn’t submit the enumeration type.

Migrants from different States

Alternatively, the primary time voters who wish to get enrolled as an elector and those that had migrated to Tamil Nadu from different States must submit a declaration type together with supporting paperwork to show their age and id. The BLOs would at all times carry sufficient variety of enumeration varieties and declaration varieties for distribution to all those that require them.

Ultimate voters’ record in Feb 2026

Mr. Rajagopalan informed the courtroom the ECI had introduced the conduct of SIR for Tamil Nadu and some different States on October 27 and the coaching for the officers started the very subsequent day. The coaching would get concluded on Monday (November 3). Subsequently, the enumeration section would start from Tuesday (November 4) and go on until December 4 this yr.

The draft electoral roll could be revealed on December 9. Thereafter, claims in opposition to exclusion and third occasion objections in opposition to inclusion could be entertained from December 9 this yr to January 8 subsequent yr. Inquiries on such claims and objections would additionally start on December 9 and they’d be concluded by January 31, 2026 to be able to publish the ultimate voters’ record on February 7.

Asserting the Structure in addition to the provisions of the Illustration of the Individuals Act of 1950 empower the ECI to conduct SSR in addition to SIR, Mr. Rajagopalan mentioned, the SIR had been carried out no less than on 10 events prior to now. He mentioned, the SIR was carried out final in Tamil Nadu for 197 Meeting constituencies in 2002 and for the remainder of the 37 constituencies in 2005.

Goals of SIR

He mentioned, the goal of the SIR was to make sure no eligible citizen will get omitted from the electoral rolls and no ineligible individual will get included within the rolls. The submissions have been made throughout the listening to of two writ petitions which insisted on purification of the electoral rolls in Tambaram in addition to T. Nagar Meeting constituenciesNevertheless, one other petition associated to Karur was not listed for listening to in the present day.

Therefore, the Division Bench heard the submissions made by the ECI counsel and directed the Excessive Courtroom Registry to record all three writ petitions collectively on November 13.