The Election Commission of India has asked its State predetermination officers to beryllium acceptable for the Special Intensive revision (SIR) by September 30, successful an denotation that the canvass authorization could motorboat the elector database cleanup workout arsenic aboriginal arsenic October-November.
According to officials, astatine a league of State Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) successful New Delhi earlier this month, the EC apical brass asked them to beryllium acceptable for the SIR rollout successful the adjacent 10 to 15 days. But for the involvement of greater clarity, the deadline of September 30 was set.
The CEOs person been told to support elector lists of their States, published aft the past SIR, ready.
Several authorities CEOs person already enactment up the elector lists published aft their past SIR connected their websites.
The website of the Delhi CEO has the elector database from 2008, erstwhile the past intensive revision took spot successful the Capital.
In Uttarakhand, the past SIR took spot successful 2006 and the electoral rotation from that twelvemonth is present connected the authorities CEO's website.
The past SIR successful states volition service arsenic the cut-off date, conscionable arsenic the 2003 elector database of Bihar is being utilized by the EC for intensive revision.
Most states had the past SIR betwixt 2002 and 2004 and person astir completed mapping of existent electors with those arsenic per the past intensive revision.
The EC has said that aft Bihar, SIR volition beryllium carried retired successful the full country. Assembly elections successful Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are owed successful 2026.
The superior purpose of the intensive revision is to weed retired overseas amerciable migrants by checking their spot of birth. The determination assumes value successful the aftermath of a crackdown successful assorted states connected amerciable overseas migrants, including from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
