Mizoram to undergo special electoral roll revision after 20 years
The Election Commission will conduct a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Mizoram after two decades. The month-long exercise from May 30 aims to verify voter records through door-to-door checks, ensuring updated and accurate electoral data across the state
Aizawl: The EC will conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mizoram for the first time in two decades, a senior official said on Thursday. Announcing the exercise at a press conference here, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Lalrozama said booth-level officers would conduct a month-long door-to-door verification drive across the state from May 30 to June 28.
“Unlike the standard annual summary revisions that typically focus on deleting the deceased and adding new adults, this SIR exercise will be more extensive. BLOs will conduct house-to-house verification using enumeration cards, and district authorities have already been instructed accordingly,” he said.
According to the CEO, under the SIR exercise, mapping will be carried out between the 2005 and 2025 electoral rolls. Through this process, authorities will verify existing and missing voters and also check whether their descendants are included in the electoral rolls, he said.
Lalrozama said the entire revision process is expected to be completed by September 6. Mizoram has been included in Phase-III of the nationwide SIR exercise, which includes 16 states and 3 Union Territories.
In this phase, Mizoram will undertake the revision alongside Odisha, Sikkim and Manipur.
He said that political parties would be allowed to nominate representatives for the SIR process and sought cooperation from all stakeholders. According to officials, the state currently has 8,75,004 registered voters and the last SIR in the state was conducted in 2005.
