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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday issued a revised Special Intensive Revision (SIR) schedule for Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh, UP and Andaman and Nicobar Islands following requests from CEOs.In the earlier revised schedule, the Enumeration Period for these 6 States/UT was till December 11 and the earlier date of publication of the draft Electoral Rolls was December 16.
Election Commission’ press note
Earlier, the stretching of all legs of SIR came amid reports of alleged malpractices in states. Instances include submission of enumeration forms by ineligible persons or illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the name of dead electors, and login credentials of dead BLOs being misused to upload EFs signed in the name of dead electors.The extension of the timeline excludes West Bengal, where the deadline for the submission and digitisation of the enumeration forms in the ongoing SIR will come to an end at 12 midnight on Thursday.As of Wednesday night, a total of 57,52,207 voters have been identified by the ECI as excludable voters in West Bengal. Out of them, 24,14,750 are deceased voters, followed by 19,89,914 shifted voters and 11,57,889 untraceable voters. The rest are duplicate voters and voters deemed to be found excludable for other reasons.The total number of voters as per the list as of October 27, 2025, is 7,66,37,529. The SIR exercise started on November 4. The draft voters’ list will be published on December 16. The final voters’ list will be published on February 14.Soon after that, the ECI is expected to announce polling dates for the Assembly elections in the state.