Bihar SIR ends, final roll lists 74.2 million names

The Election Commission of India (ECI) published the final electoral list for Bihar comprising 74.2 million voters, roughly 4.7 million names lighter than at the beginning of the controversial special intensive revision that ended on Tuesday.

- Subhash Pathak, Vrinda Tulsian and Nishant Ranjan

The draft roll published on August 1 after the first phase of the SIR was completed comprised 72.4 million people, dropping 6.56 million names from the rolls published on January 1 this year. In the two-month-long verification of documents and submission of objections process, another 366,000 names were excised while 2.15 million names were added, the ECI statement said.