Overview
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is chairing a two-day meeting in Dwarka to review state readiness for the Special Intensive Revision.
- The Commission is expected to set rollout timelines following the consultations, which include other administrative matters alongside SIR preparations.
- The June 24 order launched a nationwide SIR beginning with Bihar, requiring fresh enumeration rather than the routine summary revision used in recent years.
- Following Supreme Court directions, Aadhaar must be considered as an additional document and the names and reasons for deletions must be published.
- Bihar's pilot saw 65 lakh deletions in the draft and 3.66 lakh more in the final roll, while West Bengal reports near-complete mapping to its 2002 roll and says voters not on that roll must submit documents beyond only Aadhaar.