India Electoral Roll Revision Phase 3

The India — Election Commission of India announced Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, covering 16 states and 3 Union Territories and involving 36.73 crore voters. This exercise, starting May 30, aims to update voter lists through house-to-house verification by Booth Level Officers, assisted by Booth Level Agents appointed by political parties. The states and UTs included are India — Delhi, India — Odisha, India — Mizoram, India — Sikkim, India — Manipur, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Telangana, Punjab, India — Karnataka, India — Meghalaya, India — Maharashtra, India — Jharkhand, Nagaland, India — Tripura, and Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. India — Himachal Pradesh, India — Jammu and Kashmir, and India — Ladakh are excluded from this phase due to weather and census considerations, with their schedules to be announced later. Chief Election Commissioner Bhuvneshwar Kumar urged electors to participate. Previous phases of SIR have already covered other regions, with Phase 2 resulting in a 10.2 percent reduction in the voter list by removing over 60 lakh dead voters. The final electoral rolls for the current phase will be published between September and December 2026.