The Election Commission will run a month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Odisha from May 30 to June 28, with training for booth-level officers and agents held from May 20 to 29. Booth-level officers will conduct door-to-door verification, while rationalisation of polling stations will be completed by June 28. Draft rolls will be published on July 5, and claims and objections can be filed until August 4, leading to final rolls on September 6.
Ahead of the second phase of voting in West Bengal’s 142 constituencies, the Election Commission of India has marked about 12,000 polling booths—roughly 30% of the total 40,000—as critical and vulnerable. Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said officials have been instructed to remove vulnerabilities and ensure stricter arrangements at these booths.
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