Goa tops in digitization of SIR forms, Kerala lags
POLITY – ELECTIONS
25 NOVEMBER 2025
- With 10 days remaining to complete the enumeration phase of the second round of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Election Commission said more than 47% of the enumeration forms distributed across 12 States and Union Territories have been digitised.
- Goa has achieved the highest digitisation at 76.89% followed by Rajasthan at 72.20%, while Kerala and Uttar Pradesh have the lowest at 23% and 26.6% respectively.
- The enumeration phase, which began on November 4, 2025, will end on December 4, 2025.
- The draft list will be published on December 9, 2025 following which the period for claims and objections will begin.
- According to the EC, out of the 51 crore voters being covered in this SIR, enumeration forms of 50,50,24,723, or 99.07%, have been collected and 24,13,75,229 (47.35%) have been digitised.
- The enumeration phase involves distribution of forms, collection of the filled ones, and uploading the data on the commission’s website.
- The whole exercise is being done by booth-level officers (BLOs), making them the most important cog in the wheel. However, the BLOs are racing against time.
- While some States such as West Bengal have witnessed protests over ‘excess workload’, there have been some reports of suicides by BLOs over alleged work-related stress.
- Currently, the SIR is being held in Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Puducherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep.
