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Delhi HC directs ECI to avoid imposing ‘unbearable’ burden on teachers during SIR

July 28, 2026 admin

The Bench also questioned the ECI over a circular issued on July 26 directing school principals not to initiate disciplinary action against teachers for unauthorised leave or absence. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (July 27, 2026) directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that schoolteachers…

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Haryana completes SIR phase-I; over 33 lakh names left out due to relocation, death, duplication

July 25, 2026 admin

Booth Level Officers (BLOs) verify the enumeration form of residents during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). File | Photo Credit: The Hindu With Haryana completing the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across the State, the names of 33,84,568 electors went unrecorded as a result of permanent relocation, absence, death or duplicate entries….

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Tracing voters in an ever-evolving Bengaluru

July 24, 2026 admin

After receiving her enumeration form, Lakshmi P. (name changed), a 59-year-old voter from Padmanabhanagar, began searching for her details in the 2002 electoral rolls. She sifted through over 120 voters with the same name. Different spellings, the expansion of her initial and even her parents’ names led nowhere. It was only after she found her husband’s 2002…

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SIR: Residents flag purple stickers pasted despite no enumeration forms being distributed

July 10, 2026 admin

Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbu Kumar. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) under way, residents of several apartment complexes across the city have reported that the purple stickers, which Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are required to paste outside a residence only after ‘successfully distributing’ enumeration forms to voters, are…

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BJP urges EC to provide SIR forms in English

July 7, 2026 admin

State BJP president N. Ramchander Rao and other party leaders speaking to media personnel after meeting Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudarshan Reddy at BRKR Bhavan, in Hyderabad, on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR The Telangana BJP on Tuesday urged the Election Commission to make Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration forms available in English as…

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Odisha SIR: Malkangiri records 27,653 deletions, highest in the State

July 6, 2026 admin

Malkangiri, the southernmost Assembly segment of Odisha and with a large number of settlers from Bangladesh, has recorded the highest voter deletions – 27,653 – from the electoral roll following the first phase of the special intensive revision (SIR) in the State. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Malkangiri, the southernmost Assembly segment of Odisha…

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Karnataka: State-wide vigilance committees’ to assist voters during SIR

July 6, 2026 admin

The groups said that the committees will collect daily reports on problems faced by voters during the SIR process and bring them to the attention of officials. | Photo Credit: File photo A coalition of civil society organisations on Monday (July 6) announced the formation of ‘Voter’s Vigilance Committees’ across Karnataka, from the State level to individual…

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SIR: Karnataka likely to have 11 ‘logical discrepancy’ categories

June 30, 2026 admin

With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) now under way in the State, Karnataka is likely to have 11 types of “logical discrepancy”, if the same framework followed in other Phase III States is adopted. When the category was first introduced during the SIR in West Bengal, only four logical discrepancies were identified. While Karnataka Chief…

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SIR: No documents needed during house-to-house enumeration in Karnataka

June 30, 2026 admin

Electors in Karnataka will not have to produce any documents during the house-to-house enumeration for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls beginning on Tuesday, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V. Anbu Kumar clarified on Monday. Only forms to be given Addressing a press conference, Mr. Kumar said Booth Level Officers will only distribute and…

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SIR: Karnataka CEO seeks exemption from biometric attendance for BLOs

June 22, 2026 admin

Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbu Kumar Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V. Anbu Kumar has requested all heads of departments to temporarily exempt staff deployed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) from daily biometric attendance and attendance through the Kartavya Attendance App during the period of the exercise. ‘Utmost urgency’ In a letter on Monday,…

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