Though the electoral rolls are summarily revised every year and before each election, through the SIR the ECI has sought a list of 11 eligibility documents. File.
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) will hold a conference of Chief Electoral Officers (CEO) of all States and Union Territories on September 10 to take stock of preparedness for rolling out a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
This would be the third meeting of CEOs since Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar took over in February this year.
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A senior ECI official said that though this was a routine meeting, special focus would be on the preparations underway to roll out the SIR of electoral rolls across the country. The controversial exercise is currently on in Bihar, just ahead of its Assembly elections.
All CEOs would be making presentations on September 10 regarding the number of voters in their States and U.T.s and details of the last intensive revision, the official said.
In its order on June 24, the poll body had said that the SIR would be conducted across the country, but had only rolled it out for Bihar. ECI sources had earlier said that the SIR for the country would be done with January 1, 2026 as the qualifying date.
Contested excercise
Though the electoral rolls are summarily revised every year and before each election, through the SIR the ECI has sought a list of 11 eligibility documents.
The exercise has been challenged through a batch of petitions in the Supreme Court which has asked the poll body to consider Aadhaar as an eligibility document in case a voter is unable to furnish any of the 11 indicative documents and is facing deletions from the voter list.
Published – September 06, 2025 08:57 pm IST
