EC reviews mapping progress as it readies pan-India SIR roadmap

The Election Commission of India (ECI) top brass on Wednesday assessed the progress made on mapping the current electors with the voters as per the last Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in different states.

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Today's exercise is a precursor to ramp up its preparations for special intensive revision of voter lists across India. The exercise will help state poll machinery find out the number of electors who were in the electoral roll after the last intensive revision and continue to be in the latest voter list.

As was the case in Bihar where assembly polls will be held in the first fortnight of November, the voters will not have to submit any documents but only semi-filled enumeration forms.

There is a view in EC that mapping of current electors with those in the last SIR will ensure that more than half the electorate in most states may not give any documents in SIR.

According to a statement, the Election Commission also reviewed the status of appointment and training of district election officers, electoral registration officers, and boothlevel officers, and booth-level agents who are appointed by a political party.

The two-day meet is the second since September to decide on the massive exercise.