Phase three of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which was briefly postponed due to assembly elections in Kerala, Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal last month, is scheduled to be implemented by the Election Commission in the upcoming days.
The poll board stated that as the elections in these states and Union Territories are ended, the next stage of SIR can now start.
Ten states and three Union Territories—Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, and Bihar—have participated in the exercise thus far.

Nearly 40 crore voters will participate in the second phase of the exercise, which will encompass the remaining 22 states and Union Territories, according to the Election Commission on Monday.
In Assam, a different "special revision" of the electoral rolls was completed.
The poll authority claims that the cleanup effort has already reached over 60 crore of India's approximately 99 crore voters.In the next phase, 17 states and five Union Territories will cover the remaining about 40 crore voters.
The Election Commission instructed 22 states and Union Territories, including Delhi, to finish SIR preparations as soon as possible because the exercise was scheduled to start in April, according to a PTI report.
All states and Union Territories would have been covered by the exercise after phase three was finished.The poll authority informed the chief electoral officers of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Ladakh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Telangana, and Uttarakhand that the pan-India SIR exercise had been ordered in June of last year.
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