NEW DELHI: All states and Union territories (UTs), besides Bihar, have been given time till September 30, 2025, by the Election Fee (EC) to finish mapping of their present electors with those that figured within the rolls revealed after the final intensive revision within the state/UT over 20 years in the past.This, sources mentioned, signifies potential announcement of rollout of a nationwide particular intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by EC in early Oct, with Jan 1, 2026, because the qualifying date.Sources mentioned that although the EC, at its assembly with all state/UT chief electoral officers on Sept 10, had requested them to complete over the subsequent 10-15 days preliminary actions for a nationwide SIR, with Jan 1, 2026, because the qualifying date, the deadline was prolonged to Sept 30 after some states sought extra time.Newest state ballot rolls uploaded, mapping work underway The chief electoral officers (CEOs) of all states/UTs have already uploaded the electoral roll from final intensive revision on their respective web sites. All electors included within the roll on the date of concern of the nationwide SIR order by EC will probably be given enumeration kinds by sales space stage officers (BLOs), and whoever indicators and submits the shape, with or with out paperwork as required, both on to the BLOs or by way of the events’ booth-level brokers (BLAs), will probably be included within the draft roll.“The pre-SIR actions undertaken by the states/UTs determine electors who had been there within the rolls from the final intensive revision, and so they shall be presumed to be residents, as will their youngsters, and don’t must submit any paperwork. They could represent 50-60% of the present voters; it’s only the remaining 40% of electors that the BLOs might want to concentrate on for making house-to-house visits and amassing their enumeration kinds together with paperwork to show their citizenship,” mentioned an Election Fee functionary.The EC had written to all state/UT CEOs on July 5, 2025, asking them to start preparations for a Bihar-like SIR train with Jan 1, 2026, because the qualifying date. The states/UTs have since been busy with the digitisation and importing of electoral rolls from the final intensive revision on the CEO’s web site, mapping electors within the roll from final SIR with the present roll, rationalisation of polling stations to cap electors at 1,200 and the coaching of officers concerned in SIR.The particular abstract revision undertaken on the finish of every yr, with Jan 1 of the next yr because the reference date, often begins with pre-revision actions in Aug-Sept, adopted by publication of draft roll in Oct-end, the submitting of claims and objections by Nov-end and their settlement by Dec-end. The ultimate roll is revealed for many states/UTs within the first week of Jan, although some states might take every week or two extra.
