AGARTALA, FEB 19: The Election Commission of India on Thursday directed Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of seven Northeast Indian states including Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura, along with 16 other States and Union Territories, to immediately complete all preparatory work for the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, scheduled to begin from April 2026.
According to the letter, the Commission had earlier ordered the SIR of electoral rolls through Order No. 23/ERS/2025 dated June 24, 2025, covering all States and Union Territories across the country. Subsequently, vide letter No. 23/2025-ERS (Vol. II) dated July 5, 2025, all CEOs, except those of Bihar, were directed to begin pre-revision activities for the exercise.
The Commission further announced, through a letter dated October 27, 2025, that the SIR exercise had been initiated in 12 States and Union Territories and is currently underway.
The latest communication makes clear that the SIR in the remaining States and UTs, including the seven Northeast states, is expected to start from April 2026. Officers have been asked to wrap up all groundwork at the earliest.
Also read | 52,016 Criminal Cases, 13,349 Civil Cases Pending in Tripura’s Subordinate Courts: Report
Among the other States and Union Territories addressed in Thursday’s letter are Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Ladakh, Maharashtra, NCT of Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and Sikkim. Notably, Assam is not among the states addressed in the letter.
It has been learned that the directive was addressed to CEOs across 23 States and Union Territories and sent via both email and Speed Post from the Commission’s headquarters at Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi.
The Special Intensive Revision is a periodic exercise carried out to update and clean voter rolls, ensuring that eligible voters are registered and inaccuracies in existing records are corrected.