Chief Electoral Officer Meghalaya Dr BDR Tiwari on Wednesday said the State has launched the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), 2026, with an extensive door-to-door verification drive aimed at ensuring that every eligible citizen is included in the electoral roll while preventing duplication and the inclusion of ineligible voters. He said the State election machinery is in touch with the election machineries of neighbouring Assam as well as other States across the country to verify migration cases and ensure an accurate voter list, as electors may have shifted for employment or other reasons. The exercise commenced with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) beginning house-to-house distribution of Enumeration Forms from June 30 and will continue until July 29.
Dr Tiwari said, “All the ground level officer it is the responsibility assigned to the Electoral registration officer to look all the aspects. Election commission is doing coordination, and we are not only touched with Assam, somebody might be in Kolkata or went to Mumbai Bengaluru, Hyderabad and even to other places also for the employment and for different purpose, they migrated. So, here, the migration cases are less, but there are the state where SIR exercise already held and the number of migration issues are also there. So we are coordinating with the election machinaries across the country, Under the supervision, guidance, and the facilities provided by Election Commission of India. So accordingly all needful things to ensure accurate voter list is being taken up.”
Emphasising the legal requirement of a single place of enrolment, he said, “No person can be voter in more than one place in India, anybody filing the Enumeration form they are giving the declaration that I am voter in this part only, so it and offence if a person willingly submitting this in more than one place than the person is liable to get punishment under relevant act.”
The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer said the Special Intensive Revision is being undertaken with the objective that “No eligible citizen is left out, while no ineligible person is included in the Electoral Roll.” As part of the exercise, Booth Level Officers began house-to-house visits across Meghalaya on June 30 for distribution of Enumeration Forms and verification of electoral details.
A total of 3,551 Booth Level Officers have been deployed across the State and all have undergone training for the Special Intensive Revision. They are being assisted by 60 Electoral Registration Officers, 166 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers and 410 BLO Supervisors to oversee and facilitate the exercise across Meghalaya.
Meghalaya has a total electorate of 23,49,645 electors, with an average of 662 electors assigned to each Booth Level Officer. On the first day of the campaign, 1,19,129 Enumeration Forms were distributed, covering 5.07 per cent of the total electorate.
Among the districts, South West Garo Hills recorded the highest coverage with 20.49 per cent of Enumeration Forms distributed, followed by North Garo Hills with 10.25 per cent, South Garo Hills with 6.67 per cent and West Garo Hills with 6.5 per cent. East Khasi Hills, the State’s largest electoral district, distributed 28,006 Enumeration Forms, accounting for 4.43 per cent of its electors as of 3 pm on July 1.
The house-to-house verification and distribution of Enumeration Forms will continue until July 29. During the enumeration phase, Booth Level Officers will distribute Enumeration Forms in duplicate, collect one completed form after issuing an acknowledgement and make up to three visits where houses remain locked. No supporting documents are required during the enumeration phase. Electors may alternatively complete and submit the Enumeration Form online through the ECINET mobile application or the Voter Services Portal.
To facilitate the revision process, the legacy Electoral Roll prepared during the last Special Intensive Revision conducted in 2005 has been made available on the official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Meghalaya, district administration websites, the ECINET mobile application, the Voter Services Portal and with Booth Level Officers. Electors whose names appear in the 2005 electoral roll have been advised to note particulars including their name, relative’s name, State, district, Assembly Constituency number, part number and serial number before filling the Enumeration Form.
Electors who migrated from other States after 2005 and settled in Meghalaya, and whose names do not appear in the State’s 2005 electoral roll, have been advised to search their details through the Voter Services Portal or the ECINET mobile application and note the relevant particulars from the last Special Intensive Revision electoral roll of their previous State before completing the Enumeration Form. Those whose names do not appear in the 2005 electoral roll but whose parents’ or grandparents’ names are included may furnish those details in the form.
The Chief Electoral Officer’s office said no supporting documents are required to be submitted along with the Enumeration Form. However, a recent passport-size photograph must be pasted on the form or uploaded while submitting it through the ECINET online self-enumeration facility. Electors have been urged to cooperate with Booth Level Officers during their visits, carefully fill up the Enumeration Forms and return them within the prescribed time to ensure that Meghalaya’s electoral roll remains accurate, complete and up to date.
