SIR begins in Uttar Pradesh; BLOs to visit households with forms

Lucknow (PTI): The Election Commission on Tuesday began the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Uttar Pradesh to clean the voter list.

The exercise was launched under the theme 'Shuddh Nirvachak Namavali – Majboot Loktantra' (Clean Electoral Roll – Strong Democracy), officials said.

As part of the exercise, booth-level officers, or BLOs, will visit every household from Tuesday to December 4, to verify and update voters' details, they said.

The BLOs will provide voters with pre-printed forms in duplicate and assist them in filling them out.

Each voter has been requested to fill out and sign both copies of the form, affix a recent photograph, and return the form to the BLO at the earliest, the UP Chief Electoral office (CEO) said in a statement.

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