By Admin 
Amidst the ongoing election activity in Bihar, the Election Commission will start the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in 12 states of the country from Tuesday (4 November 2025). The work of verification of Voter ID will start in many states including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh. This time, like Bihar, only Aadhar card is not valid in the SIR process. Under this, the work of distributing enumeration forms from door to door of voters will be started and these forms will be submitted on December 4, 2025.
Election Commission will visit Bengal
A team of the Election Commission may visit West Bengal from 5 to 8 November to review the SIR. According to the report of news agency PTI, the team led by Election Commission Principal Secretary SB Joshi and Deputy Secretary Abhinav Aggarwal can inspect Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri districts of Bengal. Will assess how the BLO and Returning Officer RO are performing their duties.
During the second phase, SIR is to be conducted in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Assembly elections are going to be held in four of these states, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal next year. During this period, the concerned BLO will visit people’s homes three times. The final publication of the voter list will be done next February 2025.
These 13 documents are necessary for SIR
For SIR, documents like birth certificate, 10th or any other examination certificate, passport, government land and house papers, caste certificate, domicile certificate, government job identity card or pension payment order, copy of family register, Commission’s guidelines related to Aadhar card, NRC entry, any identity card issued before July 1, 1987, land or house allotment certificate issued by the government will be valid. There are 51 crore voters in the 12 states and union territories where SIRs are to be held.
Draft voter list will be released on December 9
The Election Commission will release the draft voter list on 9 December and the final voter list will be published on 7 February 2025. Earlier SIR was done in 2002-04. The Commission believes that SIR will ensure that no eligible voter is left out and no ineligible voter’s name remains in the voter list. The primary objective of SIR is to delist illegal foreign immigrants by checking their place of birth.