ECI asks 17 States, 5 UTs to organize for subsequent section of SIR ‘anticipated’ in April

The Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists within the 22 States and Union Territories the place it’s but to be held is “anticipated” to start out from April, the Election Fee of India advised State ballot authorities on Thursday (February 19, 2026). .

The 22 remaining States and UTs are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Ladakh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Telangana, and Uttarakhand.

In a letter to the Chief Electoral Officers of those 22 States and UTs, the ECI requested them to finish all preparatory work associated to the SIR on the earliest, because the train “is predicted to start out from April 2026”. This preparatory work consists of mapping the present voters with the electoral roll of 2002-2004, when the final SIR was performed, and coaching booth-level officers (BLOs) to hold out the train.

SIR standing

Bihar was the primary State to endure the SIR course of final 12 months, simply earlier than its Meeting election.

Following this, on October 27, 2025, the ballot physique ordered the second section of the SIR in 12 States and UTs, which is underway now. These States are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The SIR course of in these States has seen a number of extensions, with Uttar Pradesh getting essentially the most additional time to finish the train.

In Assam, a particular revision was performed as a substitute of SIR, because of authorized hurdles posed by an incomplete Nationwide Register of Residents course of within the State.

After asserting final June that the SIR can be performed in all States and UTs, the ECI had, in a letter dated July 5, 2025, requested all States to provoke the pre-revision train for the SIR.

Faculty academics for Census, SIR

Whereas asserting the schedule for the third section, the ECI should issue within the Census train, which can be scheduled to start in April.

The primary section of the Inhabitants Census 2027, the home itemizing operation, is scheduled to start on April 1, with the deployment of 30 lakh enumerators, most of whom are academics from authorities faculties. Nevertheless, the BLOs who perform the door-to-door enumeration for the SIR are additionally largely authorities faculty academics.

ECI sources had earlier indicated that the ballot physique had held conferences with the Registrar Common of India as nicely the Census Commissioner over easy methods to use the widespread pool of administrative sources in a staggered method for each the SIR and the Census.