Andhra Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Vivek Yadav. File | Photo credit: KVS Giri
Andhra Pradesh Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vivek Yadav on Thursday conducted a training session for District Collectors and District Electoral Officers (DEOs) on preparations for the next Special Intensive Revision – 2026 (SIR) through video conferencing.
He stated that the SIR has already been conducted eight times from 1951 to 2022 and the last SIR was conducted more than 21 years ago and explained the need to take up the SIR now due to frequent migrations resulting in voters being registered at more than one place, dead voters not being picked up and foreigners being wrongly incorporated.
Explaining the key processes of the SIR and the role of the DEO in it, the Director General said that it is the responsibility of the DEO to assess the need for identification of new polling stations with due consideration to the fact that no polling station should have more than 1,200 voters.
The mapping of the voters in the 2025 electoral rolls with the voters appearing in the latest SIR electoral roll i.e. the 2002 electoral roll should be completed immediately. He noted that if the name of the voter or his/her mother or father appears in the latest voter list of the SIR, then the extract from that voter list would itself be considered a self-sufficient document.
Mr. Vivek Yadav said that the Cabinet Level Officers (BLOs) will be given identity cards and that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has introduced a new module called ‘Book a Call with BLO’ on its unified web portal i.e. ECINet which has been designed to facilitate resolution of electoral roll related queries and issues within 48 hours.
He asked the Collectors to familiarize themselves with the SIR process and conduct comprehensive training of all Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) / Assistant EROs / BLOs / Supervisors, complete the distribution of BLO ID cards in a week and ensure that the requests received in the ‘Book Call with BLO’ module are processed within the stipulated time.
Published – 06 Nov 2025 21:24 IST
