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Election Commission Special Intensive Revision – Phase III SIR to be conducted in phased manner in 16 States and 3 UTs Posted On: 14 MAY 2026 2:19PM by PIB Delhi 1. Election Commission of India has directed the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in 16 States and 3 Union Territories (UTs) as per Annexure-I. 2. The schedule of SIR Phase-III has been fixed keeping in view the common...

Election Commission Special Intensive Revision – Phase III SIR to be conducted in phased manner in 16 States and 3 UTs

Posted On: 14 MAY 2026 2:19PM by PIB Delhi

1. Election Commission of India has directed the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision

(SIR) in 16 States and 3 Union Territories (UTs) as per Annexure-I.

2. The schedule of SIR Phase-III has been fixed keeping in view the common field machinery with the ongoing house listing of Census.

3. With this, the SIR of Electoral Rolls will cover the entire country in Phase-III except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. After considering the completion of Phase-II of the Census in these three State/UTs and due consideration of the weather in the upper reaches/ snow bound areas, SIR schedule for these three State/UTs will be announced later.

4. During SIR Phase-III over 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will go house-to-house to

36.73 crore electors assisted by 3.42 lakh Booth Level Agents (BLAs) appointed by political parties during the Enumeration Phase. State/UT wise details of BLOs and BLAs are at Annexure-II.

5. SIR is a participative exercise involving all stakeholders including electors, political parties and election officials. ECI requests 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.

6. In the first two phases of the SIR in 13 States/UTs covering nearly 59 crore electors as on the date of order of SIR in the respective States/UTs, over 6.3 lakh BLOs and 9.2 lakh BLAs appointed by political parties were involved in various stages of the SIR process.

********** PK/GDH/RP Annexure-IPreparation, House to Rationalization Publication States/UTs Qualifying Training & House of Polling of draft date of Printing visits by Stations Electoral SIR roll BLOs

1. Odisha 20.05.2026 30.05.2026

2. Mizoram 01.07.2026 to By 28.06.2026 05.07.2026 to

3. Sikkim

29.05.2026 28.06.2026

4. Manipur

25.05.2026 04.06.2026

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