The Election Commission of India (EC) has announced an extension for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya. Under the revised schedule, the final voter lists will now be published on October 16 for Andhra Pradesh and October 26 for Meghalaya, pushing back their original deadlines of October 9 and October 21, respectively.
The decision was finalized during a panel meeting at Nirvachan Sadan, attended by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar alongside Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi. For Andhra Pradesh, the ongoing phase for handling claims and objections will run until October 10.
This scheduling adjustment follows a series of recent administrative updates by the poll panel regarding the staggered third phase of the SIR—which spans 16 states and three Union territories covering 36.73 crore voters—following deliberations over enrolment forms and software protocols. Similar deadline extensions for final voter list publications have previously been granted for several other states, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, and Punjab.
