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The Election Commission of India (ECI) volition statesman the enumeration signifier of the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful 12 States and Union Territories connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
The SIR workout volition screen adjacent to 51 crore voters successful Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep.
Among these, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, and Puducherry will spell to the polls successful 2026.
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The archetypal circular of the clean-up workout was carried out in Bihar earlier this year, during which much than 68 lakh names were deleted from the electoral rolls.
The house-to-house enumeration process volition instrumentality spot from November 4 to December 4. The ECI volition people the draught rolls connected December 9, aft which claims and objections tin beryllium submitted from December 9 to January 8. Notices volition beryllium issued, and hearings and verifications volition instrumentality spot from December 9 to January 31.
The last electoral rolls volition beryllium published connected February 7.
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In astir of these States, the SIR workout was past carried retired betwixt 2002 and 2004, and they person astir completed the mapping of existent electors according to it.
The ECI has implemented definite changes to the SIR 2.0, drafting upon insights gained from the acquisition successful Bihar. Among the astir important changes is the directive that nary documents should beryllium collected from electors during the enumeration phase. The canvass assemblage took this determination aft it recovered successful Bihar that a important fig of voters could beryllium traced to the electoral rolls prepared aft the preceding SIR.
Secondly, anterior to the announcement of the SIR, the canvass assemblage had begun the process of matching the existent voters’ lists with those from the years 2002 to 2004, during which the past SIR was conducted successful these states. This process has been referred to arsenic pre-mapping. So astir States are expected to person the lists of radical whose names were already determination successful the voters’ list, and they are frankincense not expected to taxable immoderate of the 11 indicative documents on with their enumeration forms.
Aadhaar has been added arsenic the 12th document, arsenic directed by the Supreme Court, but lone arsenic impervious of individuality and not of citizenship.
The canvass assemblage has besides amended the enumeration form, incorporating a file wherever a genitor oregon a comparative tin supply a signature successful the lack of the voter. This signature volition beryllium counter-signed by the booth-level serviceman (BLO).
For electors whose enumeration forms person not been returned, the BLO may ascertain a probable cause, including decease oregon duplication, done inquiries conducted with neighbouring electors and papers these findings.
Since the draught electoral rolls volition lone see the names of those who person submitted the enumeration forms, booth-wise lists of electors whose names person not been included successful the draught rolls volition beryllium displayed connected the announcement committee of the respective Panchayat Bhavan oregon the municipality section assemblage bureau and astatine the offices of the artifact improvement officers. This volition alteration the wide nationalist to entree the aforementioned voters’ lists, on with the probable reasons for the non-inclusion of their names.
The electoral registration officers volition contented a announcement lone aft the work of the draught rolls to those electors who could not beryllium linked with the erstwhile SIR in bid to ascertain their eligibility.
Also, dissimilar Bihar, the elector rolls of each States volition beryllium disposable for mapping the names of voters and their parents oregon guardians. This means that voters tin cheque their names successful the elector database of immoderate State successful the country, not conscionable successful the State wherever they are presently residing.
In different modification to the process, caller elector registrations volition beryllium carried retired simultaneously during the house-to-house enumeration exercise. The BLO volition transportation astatine slightest 30 blank Form 6s on with blank declaration forms to supply to anyone who seeks to enrol arsenic a caller elector.
