ECI announces SIR Phase-III across 16 states and three UTs
The Election Commission of India has announced the Special Intensive Revision, SIR Phase-III, which will be conducted in a phased manner across sixteen states and three Union Territories.
The states included in this phase are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Telangana, and Uttarakhand. The Union Territories covered are the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Chandigarh, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
CEC Gyanesh Kumar has appealed to all electors to enthusiastically participate in Phase III of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and fill their Enumeration Forms.
During SIR Phase-III over 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers will go house-to-house to 36.73 crore electors assisted by 3.42 lakh Booth Level Agents appointed by political parties during the Enumeration Phase.
With this, the SIR of Electoral Rolls will cover the entire country in Phase-III except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. After considering the completion of Phase-II of the Census in these three States and UTs and due consideration of the weather in the upper reaches or snow bound areas, SIR schedule for these three State and UTs will be announced later.
This is a significant step in the voter list revision process aimed at ensuring updated and accurate electoral rolls across the country.
SIR is a participative exercise involving all stakeholders including electors, political parties and election officials. ECI has requested all political parties to appoint BLAs for each Polling Booth, in order to ensure full participation of political parties so that SIR is conducted with complete transparency and full participation of political parties.
In the first two phases of the SIR in 13 States and UTs covering nearly 59 crore electors, over 6.3 lakh BLOs and 9.2 lakh BLAs appointed by political parties were involved in various stages of the SIR process.