Special Intensive Revision News

Twins and triplets being born less than nine months apart, six people with the same father, and a 26-year-old man whose father is 38 are among the logical discrepancies being flagged by the automated system in Delhi s draft electoral rolls during the ongoing S

An estimated 13.37 crore names have been deleted across the country from draft electoral rolls prepared during the Election Commission s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) over the past year. One of them is that of the youngest Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Delhi s electoral rolls has reduced the gender gap among voters even as nearly 4.76 million names were excluded from the draft rolls, with men accounting for 57.2% of the deletions and women 42.8%, according to data rele

The first day of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mumbai got off to a faltering start on Tuesday after hundreds of booth level officers (BLOs), many of them school teachers and BMC employees, stayed away from duty, demanding to be for

The Election Commission of India has initiated a Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls across Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Meghalaya, and Jharkhand. Booth Level Officers are conducting door-to-door verification to update electoral data, ensuring accuracy

The Calcutta High Court has asked the special intensive revision (SIR) appellate tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal filed by a woman whose name was allegedly deleted from the voter list, after she told the court that the issue was preventing her son

In Maharashtra s 25 of 288 Assembly constituencies, all of which are urban, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms of over 40 per cent voters could not be collected their names would not find place in the draft roll that would be published on August 31. An

South East Delhi is expected to be the worst-hit district in terms of the expected number of deletions in the draft Special Intensive Revision (SIR) roll which will be published on August 24. It had the lowest digitisation rate of electoral forms at 56.32%, In

The draft electoral rolls, which will be published on August 24, will likely exclude over 20.8 million or 21.25% electors in the state, as the deadline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ended on Monday. Over 3.66 million or 35.24% electors in Mumbai and

Duplicate entries in other states, relocation, and lack of awareness are among the factors that the booth level officers (BLOs) have attributed to the expected deletion of 32.82% of names of electors in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) draft rolls in Delhi

With just one day left in the deadline for the enumeration process under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), officials on Sunday said that the nearly 34% of the forms left to be digitised largely belong to individuals who may have moved and would be removed

With the door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) set to begin on June 30 in Maharashtra, the State Election Commission has clarified that teachers will be assigned Booth Level Officer (BLO) duties during non-scho

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has opened a new avenue for cyber fraudsters to dupe people of their hard-earned money. Posing as Election Commission officials, the scammers target voters, specifically elderly people, with claims of dis

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has warned ministers, MLAs, and senior Congress leaders that there is a risk of losing 21 per cent of votes in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, which ended on August 10. He cited internal reports he

Mumbai is likely to seek an extension of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as progress in the enumeration exercise has remained slow, with officials blaming heavy rain and resistance from teachers assigned as booth-level officers

The government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) need to carefully read criticisms of the latest round of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by one of the country s digital governance pioneers. In an article in this newspaper, Ram Sewak Sharma who

In a span of seven days, the Election Commission (EC) of Maharashtra issued two letters relating to school teachers selected as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) for the ongoing voter roll Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The first order issued on June 27 said that

The Congress government in Karnataka issued orders and guidelines on June 29 two days after the SIR exercise started in the state to issue PRCs and domicile certificates to its citizens to establish their residential status. The additional document was meant t

Since March end, when tribunals were set up in West Bengal to tackle cases of logical discrepancies after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission was concluded, and long after the Assembly polls which the SIR was timed with got

As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls gathers momentum in the city, confusion over two lists of documents one in Marathi and another in English that have to be submitted for verification, has led to difficulties in filling enumeration

New Delhi: Around 22 lakh voters have been left out of the draft electoral rolls in four states, where Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists is underway.According to data made available in the public domain in the last few days by chie

The Election Commission s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway across Punjab, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) carrying out door-to-door verification of voters. While the exercise is aimed at updating the state s electoral rolls, wit

Former Congress corporator Mohsin Haider on Wednesday alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Andheri taluka has virtually come to a standstill , citing poor field deployment of Booth Level Officers and warning that the July 29

The Karnataka High Court has sought responses from state and election bodies. A petition questions the State Election Commission's parallel voter revision process

Bhubaneswar: Names of more than 20 lakh people were deleted from the voter lists following the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision in Odisha as the Election Commission published the draft electoral rolls on Sunday.Odisha's Chief Electoral Offic

Mohali police on Friday registered an FIR against AAP councillor Ravinder Singh Bindra and several others three days after a clash broke out between supporters and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during the Special Int

Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has urged the Election Commission to probe Karnataka's electoral roll revision, alleging widespread guideline violations. She claims mandatory door-to-door verification has been replaced by camp-based exercises, potentially all

The Pune district administration will launch a door-to-door verification of more than 91 lakh voters from June 30 as part of the Election Commission of India s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the first exercise of its scale in over two decades. The drive wil

In its first major organisational overhaul in nearly 12 years, the Haryana Congress on Wednesday appointed 103 block presidents across 19 districts, a move aimed at rebuilding the party s grassroots structure ahead of future electoral battles in the state. The

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR-2026) of electoral rolls will begin across the Gurugram district on Monday, with booth-level officers (BLOs) undertaking door-to-door verification of voters till July 14, district election officer and deputy commissioner Utt