Booth Level Officers (BLOs) play a key role in this exercise, confirming voter details, receiving new applications from eligible citizens, and removing duplicate or invalid entries. The initiative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Thursday (November 27, 2025) argued in the Supreme Court that the power of the Election Commission of India (ECI) — according to the Representation of the ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday emphatically said the Election Commission is statutorily and constitutionally empowered to conduct the pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral ...

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 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.

SIR deadline: Booth-level officers (BLOs) try up to three times to collect voter forms from each household. (Image: PTI) The process of SIR has created quite a stir nationwide. There are n number of ...