New Delhi: More than 50.35 crore of the nearly 51 crore electors in nine states and three Union territories have received enumeration forms under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, the Election Commission said on Wednesday.
Phase two of the SIR exercise began on November 4 with the enumeration stage and will continue till December 4.
In its daily SIR bulletin, the poll authority said over 50.35 crore enumeration forms have been distributed in the 12 states and Union territories. In other words, 98.79 per cent of the 50.97 crore electors have received the partly filled forms.
Six crore, or 11.76%, of the forms have been digitised as well. Goa has the most number of digitised forms, while Uttar Pradesh has the least.
The SIR exercise is being conducted in Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Puducherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep. Of these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal will go to the polls in 2026. In Assam, where an election is also due in 2026, the commission announced a ‘special revision’ of electoral rolls on Monday (November 17).
