Get ready for SIR by September 30: EC tell state Election officers
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New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed election officers in states to get ready for the country-wide Special Intensive revision (SIR) by September 30.
The news agency Press Trust of India reported citing officials that the top brass of the EC asked the State Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) at a conference in New Delhi earlier this month to get ready for SIR in the next 10 to 15 days, The Wire reported.
Alongside setting a deadline of September 30 for the purpose of greater clarity, the top brass of the commission directed the CEOs to keep the states’ voter list, published after the last SIR, ready.
It is reported that Delhi and Uttarakhand CEOs already published the voter list on their websites after their last SIR with Delhi’s from 2008, while the Uttarakhand state CEO’s website has the last SIR from 2006 along with electoral roll from the same year.
The last SIR in states will be used as the cut-off date for carrying out the SIR exercise as in the case of Bihar where the 2003 voter list was used by the EC for intensive revision.
The ECI earlier announced that after Bihar, SIR will be conducted across the country.
Back then, INDIA bloc called intensive revision an ‘exercise in exclusion’.