Overview
- The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has started in multiple states as a door‑to‑door verification of voter records using roughly 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers supported by about 3.42 lakh party-appointed agents to check tens of crores of electors.
- Officials in Telangana reported that since June 25 more than 1.02 crore enumeration forms were issued and about 30% of households were covered, though distribution has been uneven across Hyderabad where printing delays and Muharram processions paused work in some Old City wards.
- States including Karnataka, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Meghalaya and Delhi have scheduled enumeration to begin on June 30 with phased field work running into late July and draft electoral rolls planned for early August followed by final rolls in October.
- Major parties have mobilised booth teams to monitor the exercise and compete over outcomes, and senior leaders have traded accusations—most prominently Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy’s claims of local intimidation and Congress demands for probes into alleged party distribution of forms—that raise transparency concerns.
- Election officials and state CEOs have urged public cooperation, clarified that SIR applies only to eligible Indian citizens with specified documents, promoted digital grievance channels, and warned that delays or poor documentation risk excluding displaced or poorly documented voters.