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NEW DELHI: All states and Union territories (UTs), but Bihar, person been fixed clip until September 30, 2025, by the Election Commission (EC) to implicit mapping of their existent electors with those who figured successful the rolls published aft the past intensive revision successful the state/UT implicit 2 decades ago.This, sources said, indicates imaginable announcement of rollout of a nationwide peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by EC successful aboriginal Oct, with Jan 1, 2026, arsenic the qualifying date.Sources said that though the EC, astatine its gathering with each state/UT main electoral officers connected Sept 10, had asked them to decorativeness implicit the adjacent 10-15 days preliminary activities for a nationwide SIR, with Jan 1, 2026, arsenic the qualifying date, the deadline was extended to Sept 30 aft immoderate states sought much time.Latest authorities canvass rolls uploaded, mapping enactment underway The main electoral officers (CEOs) of each states/UTs person already uploaded the electoral rotation from past intensive revision connected their respective websites. All electors included successful the rotation connected the day of contented of the nationwide SIR bid by EC volition beryllium fixed enumeration forms by booth level officers (BLOs), and whoever signs and submits the form, with oregon without documents arsenic required, either straight to the BLOs oregon done the parties' booth-level agents (BLAs), volition beryllium included successful the draught roll.
"The pre-SIR activities undertaken by the states/UTs place electors who were determination successful the rolls from the past intensive revision, and they shall beryllium presumed to beryllium citizens, arsenic volition their children, and bash not request to taxable immoderate documents. They whitethorn represent 50-60% of the existent electorate; it is lone the remaining 40% of electors that the BLOs volition request to absorption connected for making house-to-house visits and collecting their enumeration forms on with documents to beryllium their citizenship," said an Election Commission functionary.The EC had written to each state/UT CEOs connected July 5, 2025, asking them to statesman preparations for a Bihar-like SIR workout with Jan 1, 2026, arsenic the qualifying date. The states/UTs person since been engaged with the digitisation and uploading of electoral rolls from the past intensive revision connected the CEO's website, mapping electors successful the rotation from past SIR with the existent roll, rationalisation of polling stations to headdress electors astatine 1,200 and the grooming of officials progressive successful SIR.The peculiar summary revision undertaken astatine the extremity of each year, with Jan 1 of the pursuing twelvemonth arsenic the notation date, usually begins with pre-revision activities successful Aug-Sept, followed by work of draught rotation successful Oct-end, the filing of claims and objections by Nov-end and their colony by Dec-end. The last rotation is published for astir states/UTs successful the archetypal week of Jan, though immoderate states whitethorn instrumentality a week oregon 2 more.
