Overview
- Preparations and early phases of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) are under way and several states have set door-to-door verification to begin on Monday, June 15 with draft rolls to follow in July and final lists planned for September–October.
- Officials report strong early progress in some places: Mizoram says it has distributed more than 96% of enumeration forms and digitised about 19% of responses, while Belagavi district has completed roughly 93% of pre-mapping for over 3.8 million electors.
- Local coverage and activists say large numbers of Booth Level Officers have been engaged on short-term or contract terms and some app-based mapping tasks were handled by sanitation or other outsourced staff who lack smartphone skills, prompting fast-track trainings from June 15–24.
- Political parties and civil-society figures are pressing the Election Commission for clearer safeguards, including advance notice before deletions, retention of app records, machine-readable data for parties and longer objection windows, while government leaders have urged election cadres to keep vigil.
- Reporting shows sizable groups flagged for extra checks — for example nearly 20% of voters in one city could need document verification because software could not match legacy 2002 records — and commentators warn disputed deletion claims make the coming draft-roll and objection phases crucial to avoid wrongful disenfranchisement.