Overview

• At a day-long conference in New Delhi, the Election Commission held its third CEOs' meeting of the year and reviewed state-by-state preparedness, with Bihar’s chief electoral officer detailing strategies, constraints and practices from the state’s Special Intensive Revision.
• Officials and reports indicate the rollout could be announced soon, with groundwork directed to be completed by September 30 and an October or year-end start under consideration, though no final decision was taken.
• The Commission is asking states to map current electors to the last intensive-revision rolls from 2002–04, citing Bihar data that over 75% of existing voters could be linked to the 2003 list to limit fresh documentation burdens.
• Operational plans include house-to-house verification, rationalising polling stations to keep each below 1,200 electors, and deploying and training DEOs, EROs, AEROs, BLOs and BLAs for the exercise.
• Following a Supreme Court order, Aadhaar will be accepted as the 12th identity document, document lists are being localised by states, and the legally contested Bihar SIR—whose draft roll flagged about 6.5 million deletions—remains under review as West Bengal reports preparatory steps are underway.