Shillong, May 14: Meghalaya and 15 other states and three Union territories will undergo the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls according to a schedule announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) today.
The qualifying date of SIR is October 1, 2026 and house-to-house visits by booth level officers (BLOs) will take place between June 30 and July 29, 2026.
The rationalisation of polling stations will also be completed by July 29 and the draft electoral rolls will be published on August 5. Claims and objections can then be filed up to September 4 and disposal of claims and objections will be completed by October 7.
This is phase three of the national SIR, with 13 states and territories covered in the first two phases. These covered nearly 59 crore electors but the process was highly controversial, with opposition parties alleging that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was using the ECI to exclude minority voters. The BJP and ECI denied this.
For Meghalaya there are 3,551 BLOs for an electorate of 23,43,252. There are no Booth Level Agents of political parties. The ECI has requested political parties to appoint such agents for each polling booth so that the SIR is conducted with complete transparency and full participation of political parties.
