Overview

• By mid-July more than 6.6 crore electors—88.18 percent of Bihar’s voters—had submitted enumeration forms under the Special Intensive Revision.
• Field officers identified thousands of residents from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar holding Indian documents and those names will be excluded pending detailed verification from August 1 to 30.
• Preliminary data show that 35.5 lakh entries will be removed from Bihar’s draft roll for reasons including death, permanent migration and duplicate registrations.
• Opposition petitions in the Supreme Court challenge the revision’s document requirements and tight schedule, with a hearing set for July 28.
• The Election Commission has activated its machinery across states to pilot a similar intensive roll revision nationwide before the next assembly elections.