In Poll-Bound Assam, Election Body Begins Voter Mapping Ahead Of Roll Revision
With Assam slated to go to the elections by April next year, the Election Commission has started a pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter mapping exercise in the state.
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As Assam prepares for elections scheduled by April next year, the Election Commission has initiated a pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter mapping exercise throughout the state.
Multiple constituencies are currently engaged in the process of incorporating essential information into the electoral rolls, according to sources.
The Election Commission of India has directed Booth Level Officers (BLOs) to assign house numbers to voters and identify residences lacking proper numbering. Assam's Chief Electoral Officer is supervising a thorough voter-mapping initiative, comparing voters on the 2025 electoral roll with those from 2005, when the last intensive revision occurred in the state, sources indicated.
EC sources revealed that the primary goal is to identify legacy voters, monitor population movements—a significant issue in election-bound Assam—and resolve inconsistencies.
This marks the first comprehensive update of the voters' list following the 2023 constituency delimitation, which reconfigured boundaries across all 126 assembly constituencies in the state.
Notably, BLOs in Assam have been instructed to create dedicated lists of citizens aged 100 years or older, households with 10 or more registered voters, and first-time voters, sources added.
Beyond identifying new voters, BLOs are now tasked with collecting birth certificates, photographs, parents' voter identification cards, and address verification. For removing names from the rolls, death certificates have been made mandatory, according to sources.