India, May 14 -- The Election Commission of India on Thursday announced the rollout of Phase 3 of Special Intensive Revision of voters' list in 16 states and 3 Union Territories. The exercise will cover almost the entire India except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

Among the states covered in phase 3 are Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttarakhand and others.

According to the document released by the Election Commission of India, to conduct the exercise, in the third phase, over 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will go house to house to 36.73 crore electors, assisted by 3.42 lakh Booth Level Agents.

In the first two phases, SIR was conducted in 13 States/UTs covering nearly 59 crore electors.

In th...