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Bihar Special Intensive Revision
July 18 , 2025
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- The Supreme Court has permitted the Election Commission to proceed with its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
- However, the Court asked the Commission should consider accepting key identity documents such as Aadhaar, Ration Card, and Voter ID card during the revision.
- An intensive revision involves a full, fresh preparation of electoral rolls through house-to-house enumeration.
- Enumerators visit every household to record eligible electors as of a qualifying date, without reference to existing rolls.
- The nomenclature “Special Intensive Revision” (SIR) indicates that the ECI is exercising its discretionary powers under Section 21(3) of the 1950 law.
- It permits ECI to revise electoral rolls “in such manner as it thinks fit”.
- Intensive revisions of electoral rolls, in all or some parts of the country, have been undertaken earlier in 1952-56, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1983-84, 1987-89, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
- The Supreme Court in the Mohinder Singh Gill Vs Chief Election Commissioner Case, 1977, upheld the ECI’s broad powers under Article 324 to ensure free and fair elections.
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