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The Election Department has begun preparations to behaviour a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the Union Territory of Puducherry, with the Election Commission of India (ECI) directing that the workout beryllium held successful 11 different States and UTs arsenic well.
P. Jawahar, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), said successful a property merchandise that specified an workout was being undertaken successful Puducherry aft 24 years — the erstwhile intensive revision was done with January 1, 2002, arsenic the qualifying day — to guarantee that the electoral rolls are close and error-free.
Election officials convened a gathering with representatives of recognised governmental parties connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025) to explicate the salient aspects of the exercise. The draught rolls volition beryllium published connected December 9, 2025. The play for filing claims and objections volition beryllium from December 9, 2025, to January 8, 2026. Hearing and verification volition beryllium carried retired betwixt December 9, 2025, and January 31, 2026, and the last rolls volition beryllium published connected February 7, 2026.
According to the CEO, the pre-revision preparatory phase, which has commenced and volition proceed till November 3, has been earmarked for the printing of unsocial Enumeration Forms (EFs) and the grooming of Booth Level Officers (BLOs), Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), and Assistant EROs (AEROs).
During the house-to-house enumeration scheduled from November 4 to December 4, BLO teams volition spell doorway to doorway to administer pre-filled enumeration forms to each existing electors and cod the filled forms, place absent/shifted/dead/duplicate voters, and besides cod details of recently eligible electors.
Each household volition beryllium visited astatine slightest 3 times to guarantee that nary elector is near out. The existing electors volition besides beryllium provided a installation to download pre-filled enumeration forms and upload filled-in forms and documents online.
For caller electors (18 years oregon supra arsenic connected 1.01.2026) and to-be-electors (those who volition attain 18 years arsenic connected 1.04.2026, 1.07.2026, 1.10.2026), applications successful Form 6 on with a declaration signifier successful the prescribed format volition beryllium provided by the BLO during the household visit.
During the pre-revision period, the Election Department volition transportation retired a rationalisation of polling stations by December 4 truthful that each polling presumption has nary much than 1,200 electors for easiness of entree by the public.
The Department has besides planned predominant meetings with governmental parties astatine the level of CEO/DEO/ERO successful the months up to little them connected the SIR process, grooming of Booth Level Agents (BLAs), and their relation successful assisting voters. Political parties person been encouraged to nominate BLAs who tin facilitate elector enumeration and verification astatine the grassroots level.
The CEO appealed to each eligible citizens aged 18 years and supra (as connected 1 January 2026) to cooperate with BLOs during the house-to-house enumeration process. Each citizen’s information is captious to ensuring a implicit and error-free electoral roll.
For further information, citizens whitethorn interaction their Booth Level Officer done ECI’s book-a-call installation disposable connected ECINET – Voters’ Service Portal (https://voters.eci.gov.in/) oregon interaction the Voter Helpline Number (1950). They whitethorn besides attack the ERO bureau utilizing the details disposable connected website https://ceopuducherry.py.gov.in/
