By NE NOW NEWS
Aizawl: In a move aimed at the complete cleansing and updating of the state’s voting records, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mizoram for the first time in two decades, a senior official said on Thursday.
Announcing the exercise at a press conference here, Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Lalrozama said that Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will begin a month-long door-to-door verification drive across the state from May 30 to June 28.
“Unlike the standard annual summary revisions that typically focus on deleting the names of deceased voters and adding new adults, this SIR exercise will be deeper and more extensive. BLOs will conduct house-to-house verification using enumeration cards, and district authorities have already been instructed accordingly,” he said.
According to the CEO, under the SIR exercise, mapping is being carried out between the 2005 and 2025 electoral rolls.
Through this process, authorities are verifying existing and missing voters, as well as checking whether their descendants are included in the rolls, he said.
The percentage of continuous linkage currently stands at 80.37 per cent, he added.
Lalrozama said the entire revision process in Mizoram is expected to be completed by September 6.
Mizoram has been included in Phase III of the nationwide Special Intensive Revision exercise, which covers 16 states and three Union Territories.
In this phase, Mizoram will undertake the revision alongside Odisha, Sikkim, and Manipur.
The CEO also said that political parties would be allowed to nominate representatives for the SIR process and sought cooperation from all stakeholders.
According to officials, Mizoram currently has 8,75,004 registered voters, and the last Special Intensive Revision in the state was conducted in 2005.