Staggered pan-India SIR likely in a week, 3 months for each phase

NEW DELHI: A staggered pan-India special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will get underway within four-five days, with each phase likely to be spread over three months, on the lines of the one completed in Bihar . The last intensive revision of the roll was undertaken over two decades ago. Sources indicated that the nationwide SIR may be held in phases, with certain states/UTs such as J&K and Ladakh, which will soon be snow-bound, and ones where nearly 75%-80% of the electorate has been mapped by matching current electors with entries in the 2003/2004 rolls published after the last intensive revision, being left out of the initial phase. “They can be taken up later as barely 20%-25% of electors in these states will need to submit documents to prove their eligibility as pe