The CEC additional clarified that in Assam, the place polls are additionally due in 2026, the revision of electoral rolls shall be introduced individually.
The Election Fee on Monday listed out paperwork required for voter roll revision because it introduced part two of the particular intensive revision of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar stated the state and and Union Territories the place the SIR shall be carried out embody Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Amongst these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal will go to the polls in 2026.
The CEC additional clarified that in Assam, the place polls are additionally due in 2026, the revision of electoral rolls shall be introduced individually.
Record of paperwork required for SIR
Within the meantime, the EC introduced checklist of paperwork which are required for the second part of the SIR. Test full checklist right here:
- Any Identification card/Pension Cost Order Issued to common worker/pensioner of any Central Govt./State Govt./PSU.
- Any Identification Card/Certificates/Doc issued in India by Authorities/native authorities/Banks/Put up Workplace/LIC/PSUs previous to 01.07.1987.
- BirthCertificate issued by the competent authority.
- Passport
- Matriculation/Academic certificates issued by recognised Boards/universities
- Everlasting Residence certificates issued by competent State authority
- Forest Proper Certificates
- OBC/SC/ST or any caste certificates issued by the Competent authority
- Nationwide Register of Residents (whereverit exists)
- Household Register,ready by State/Native authorities.
- Anyland/home allotment certificates by Authorities
- For Aadhaar,Fee’s instructions issued vide letter No. 2312025-ERS/Vol.ll dated 09.09.2025 shallapply.
The CEC additional added that the continued particular intensive revision (SIR) is the ninth such train since Independence, with the final one occurring in 2002-04.
SIR will guarantee no eligible elector is omitted: EC
He highlighted that the primary part of the SIR was accomplished in Bihar with zero appeals. “The second part shall be carried out in 12 states and Union Territories. SIR will guarantee no eligible elector is omitted and no ineligible elector is included in ballot rolls,” Kumar stated at a press convention.
Section two of SIR will cowl 51 crore voters
“Section two of SIR will cowl 51 crore voters. Whereas the enumeration course of will start on November 4, the draft rolls shall be printed on December 9 and last electoral rolls on February 7,” he added.
The voters’ checklist cleanup train has been concluded in Bihar, with the ultimate checklist of practically 7.42 crore electors printed on September 30. Polling within the state shall be held in two phases — on November 6 and November 11 — and the counting of votes will happen on November 14.
The Election Fee has already held two conferences with state chief electoral officers (CEOs) to agency up the SIR rollout roadmap. A number of CEOs have already put the voter lists after their final SIR on their web sites.
The web site of the Delhi CEO has the 2008 voter checklist when the final intensive revision passed off within the nationwide capital. In Uttarakhand, the final SIR passed off in 2006, and that yr’s electoral roll is now accessible on the state CEO web site.
The final SIR in states will function the closing date, simply because the 2003 voter checklist of Bihar was utilized by the EC for intensive revision. Most states had the final SIR of the voter checklist between 2002 and 2004, and so they have practically accomplished the mapping of present electors in keeping with the final SIR held of their respective states.
What’s the primary goal of SIR?
The first goal of the SIR is to weed out overseas unlawful migrants by checking their fatherland. The transfer assumes significance within the wake of a crackdown in numerous states on unlawful migrants, together with these from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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Election Fee pronounces second part of SIR in 12 states, UTs after Bihar