Overview
- Under Election Commission orders, Mumbai has begun a Special Intensive Revision to clean voter lists of duplicates, deceased names, and illegal entries and to reflect migration.
- The first phase focuses on voter mapping through the BLO app by linking the 2002 rolls to the 2024 database, which can spare matched voters from submitting citizenship documents.
- The programme runs in six steps, moving from pre-revision mapping to enumeration, an AASD list of absent or ineligible names, a draft roll, a claims-and-objections window, and a final roll.
- BMC chief Ashwini Bhide met representatives of multiple parties and asked them to appoint Booth Level Agents to support on-ground checks and improve transparency.
- State data show wide gaps in mapping progress, with Mumbai Suburban at 36.31% versus a 64.77% state average and Gadchiroli leading at 90.2%, which officials say will force more door-to-door verification in cities facing high migration and BLO shortages.