ECI likely to announce on pan-India SIR of voters' list on October 26: Officials

The Election Commission of India volition clasp a property league to denote pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' database connected Monday (October 27, 2025) evening, officials said.

While implicit details were inactive awaited, the canvass authorization is apt to denote the archetypal signifier of SIR successful which 10 to 15 states volition beryllium covered, including those going to Assembly polls successful 2026.

Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry are scheduled to spell to polls adjacent year.

The ECI took banal of the preparedness of each States and Union Territories for the pan-India SIR, astatine the two-day league of Chief Electoral Officers (CEO) that concluded successful New Delhi connected Thursday (October 23, 2025).

The committee assessed the advancement made connected the directions antecedently issued to the CEOs to representation the existent electors with the electors arsenic per the past SIR successful the States and Union Territories, according to an authoritative connection by the canvass body.