New Delhi: The Election Commission is all set to announce the schedule for a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls soon, an exercise being held after two decades and following the recent one in Bihar.

The SIR is likely to be held in more than one phase, with the five poll-bound States and Union Territories — Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal — likely to go in for the exercise during the first phase, along with some other States.

The Chief Election Commissioner and the Election Commissioners interacted one-to-one with the Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of poll-bound Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal.

Indications are that the SIR may take place in poll-bound States as early as November. Sources said the Election Commission

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