Overview
- The ECI has begun distributing enumeration forms to all 7.9 crore electors in Bihar under a constitutionally backed special intensive revision set to end with final rolls on September 30.
- About 2.93 crore voters added since January 1, 2003 must submit proof of date and place of birth plus parental documentation according to age-based categories to confirm citizenship.
- Booth Level Officers will make at least three home visits per household and electors can also submit forms online, with a July 26 deadline for submissions and an August 1–September 1 window to challenge deletions.
- Opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress and Congress, have condemned the drive as a backdoor National Register of Citizens exercise that risks disenfranchising marginalised and migrant communities.
- The ECI says the intensive revision responds to rapid migration, urbanisation and duplications in the rolls and will inform similar nationwide updates ahead of upcoming assembly elections.