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The Election Commission of India (ECI) volition prosecute implicit 45,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) to behaviour Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters' database successful Odisha from May 30, an authoritative said connected Friday (May 30, 2026).
The full workout volition proceed till June 28, and the last voters' database aft SIR volition beryllium published connected September 6, Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R.S. Gopalan told media persons here.
A full of 45,255 booth-level officers (BLOs) person been engaged to sojourn door-to-door crossed Odisha to verify elector details, helium said.
Training of each BLOs has been completed. As astir 33,026 booth-level agents (BLAs) person been nominated truthful far, the CEO appealed to each recognised governmental parties to name a BLA successful each booth for creaseless completion of the process.
The BLOs volition sojourn each household during the daytime, pursuing heatwave guidelines and stay contiguous successful their booths from 3 to 5 p.m. to perceive grievances from voters, Mr. Gopalan said.
They volition sojourn each household to verify existing electors, enrol caller voters who person turned 18, delete names of deceased/shifted persons, and close errors.
"If anyone is recovered to beryllium an outsider oregon overseas national, his/her sanction volition beryllium omitted from the electoral roll," the CEO said.
Nearly 95% of the full voters person already been mapped with the past SIR conducted successful 2002. Of these, astir 17% person logical mistakes—such arsenic sanction changes, spelling corrections, property updates, and summation of father/mother names—which volition beryllium addressed during the SIR, helium stated.
Mr. Gopalan said the different voters, whose details are correct, are lone required to capable up the 2 forms and taxable them to the BLO.
Voters who privation to affix a caller photograph connected their elector ID tin bash truthful during the exercise. They tin supply a caller passport-size photograph to the BLO oregon the BLO tin instrumentality a photograph and upload it utilizing the mobile app, helium said.
He said that rationalisation of the polling stations volition besides beryllium completed by June 28.
The draught electoral rotation volition beryllium published connected July 5, portion objections and demands tin beryllium submitted till August 4. After the solution of the objections, the last database volition beryllium retired connected September 6.
