The Election Commission of India, in a press conference on Monday, announced that after Bihar, now Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will be carried out in 12 other states and Union Territories (UTs).

Here are the 12 states/UTs where SIR will be carried out starting tomorrow: SIR in 12 states starting tomorrow

While advocating the need for SIR, the EC said that electoral rolls have to be revised before every election or as per requirement.

It said that SIR ‘has already been done 8 times from 1951 till 2004’, and that the last SIR was done more than 21 years back, in 2002-2004.

As per the EC, changes in electoral rolls have occurred due to frequent migrations that result in voters getting registered at more than one place; non-removal of dead voters from electoral rol

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