Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have been directed to create Booth Awareness Groups while election officials have started meeting Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) to make citizens aware of the process ...

The latest news (read noose) of judicial deference to executive fiat arrives packaged as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The Supreme Court’s affirmation of the Election ...

Andreas Whittam Smith was a gambler – and the biggest risk he ever took was launching The Independent. Admittedly, gambling is not the first thing that comes to mind when surveying his long and ...

As only a few days remain before the December 4 deadline to finish the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Uttar Pradesh and other participating states, many voters are still unsure about ...

After the announcement of a pan-India Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in 12 States, including election-bound States Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal, the exercise has emerged as a ...

As part of the implementation of the much-anticipated and politically hyper-charged Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and several other ...

Citizens can also opt to fill the enumeration form directly via the ECINET application which is available on both IOS and android systems. SIR enumeration form, which is a part of the larger Special ...

The Election Commission has reported that nearly 26 lakh voters’ names in West Bengal’s current electoral rolls did not match with the voter list of 2002, an official said. The discrepancy emerged ...

The Supreme Court heard pleas challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in various States in India, on Wednesday (November 26, 2025). Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are among the ...

The Supreme Court is hearing petitions filed challenging the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in various States.

Bengal SIR: EC flags over 47 lakh voters for deletion, probe ordered for areas with ‘zero self-mapping’ (Image: PTI) The process of SIR has created quite a stir nationwide. There are n number of ...