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The Election Commission of India (ECI) is each acceptable to denote the docket for a country-wide roll-out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the adjacent fewer days. The archetypal signifier of the process volition beryllium implemented successful much than 10 States and 1 Union Territory, including election-bound Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal.
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 present connected Thursday (October 23, 2025).
The afloat committee volition present sermon the substance and instrumentality a telephone connected the schedule, which would beryllium announced soon, sources told The Hindu.
The process is expected to beryllium rolled retired successful 2 phases, opening with Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal, wherever Assembly elections are owed successful 2026. Those States wherever section assemblage polls are scheduled to beryllium held and are apt to acquisition harsh upwind conditions during winters volition beryllium tackled successful aboriginal phases.
The sources said the committee heard the points raised by the CEOs of each States astatine the league and portion it responded to wide queries and held a presumption connected the SIR, nary factual decisions were announced astatine the meeting. It was stated that a determination would beryllium communicated to each CEOs aft the gathering of the Election Commission members.
The two-day league was presided implicit by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, on with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.
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.
The connection said the committee besides interacted one-to-one with the CEOs of poll-bound States/Union Territory of Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal.
The league was held arsenic a follow-up to the SIR preparedness league held connected September 10, during which each the States/UTs gave elaborate presentations connected the fig of electors, qualifying day of past SIR, and the electoral rolls successful their respective States/UTs arsenic per the past completed SIR.
The ECI had announced the nationwide SIR connected June 24 on with that for Bihar.
The SIR process has been challenged successful the Supreme Court. The court, portion not questioning the ECI mandate to behaviour the SIR, had asked the canvass assemblage to see Aadhaar arsenic the 12th papers to beryllium identity. ECI sources person said that the indicative database of documents required to beryllium submitted by electors are apt to beryllium the aforesaid arsenic successful the Bihar SIR with Aadhaar being considered arsenic a impervious of individuality only.
