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Unlike Special Summary Revision (SSR) of electoral rolls undertaken annually and besides earlier each Assembly oregon Lok Sabha polls, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to beryllium undertaken successful Tamil Nadu this twelvemonth would pb to instauration of caller database of eligible voters successful the State, the Election Commission of India (ECI) told the Madras High Court connected Monday (November 3, 2025).
Difference betwixt SSR and SIR
Appearing earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan, ECI lasting counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan explained the quality betwixt the SSR and SIR. He said, the SSR retains an existing database and requires lone the voters who privation inclusion oregon exclusion from the database to marque applications successful the prescribed formats.
On the different hand, the SIR requires each elector successful the existing database excessively to taxable an enumeration signifier which could beryllium either downloaded from the ECI website oregon provided to the voters by the Booth Level Officers (BLOs). The BLOs shall cod 1 transcript of the enumeration signifier and motion the acknowledgement of the receipt successful the 2nd transcript to beryllium retained by the voters.
The voters request not connect immoderate different papers portion submitting the enumeration signifier and they would beryllium required to bash truthful lone if determination was immoderate mismatch betwixt the details filled by them successful the enumeration signifier and the existing voters’ list. The BLOs would besides behaviour a door-to-door verification and find retired the reasons if anyone had failed to taxable the enumeration form.
Migrants from different States
On the different hand, the archetypal clip voters who privation to get enrolled arsenic a elector and those who had migrated to Tamil Nadu from different States would person to taxable a declaration signifier on with supporting documents to beryllium their property and identity. The BLOs would ever transportation capable fig of enumeration forms and declaration forms for organisation to each those who necessitate them.
Final voters’ database successful Feb 2026
Mr. Rajagopalan told the tribunal the ECI had announced the behaviour of SIR for Tamil Nadu and a fewer different States connected October 27 and the grooming for the officials began the precise adjacent day. The grooming would get concluded connected Monday (November 3). Subsequently, the enumeration signifier would statesman from Tuesday (November 4) and spell connected till December 4 this year.
The draught electoral rotation would beryllium published connected December 9. Thereafter, claims against exclusion and 3rd enactment objections against inclusion would beryllium entertained from December 9 this twelvemonth to January 8 adjacent year. Inquiries connected specified claims and objections would besides statesman connected December 9 and they would beryllium concluded by January 31, 2026 successful bid to people the last voters’ database connected February 7.
Asserting the Constitution arsenic good arsenic the provisions of the Representation of the People Act of 1950 empower the ECI to behaviour SSR arsenic good arsenic SIR, Mr. Rajagopalan said, the SIR had been conducted astatine slightest connected 10 occasions successful the past. He said, the SIR was conducted past successful Tamil Nadu for 197 Assembly constituencies successful 2002 and for the remainder of the 37 constituencies successful 2005.
Aims of SIR
He said, the purpose of the SIR was to guarantee nary eligible national gets near retired from the electoral rolls and nary ineligible idiosyncratic gets included successful the rolls. The submissions were made during the proceeding of 2 writ petitions which insisted connected purification of the electoral rolls successful Tambaram arsenic good arsenic T. Nagar Assembly constituencies. However, different petition related to Karur was not listed for proceeding today.
Hence, the Division Bench heard the submissions made by the ECI counsel and directed the High Court Registry to database each 3 writ petitions unneurotic connected November 13.
