India, Nov. 3 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday informed the Madras high court that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu will begin on Tuesday, November 4, marking the start of a statewide exercise to prepare an entirely fresh list of voters.

ECI told a bench of chief justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and justice G Arul Murugan that unlike the routine Special Summary Revision (SSR), this SIR will require every existing voter to submit a new enumeration form to retain their name on the rolls and such exercise will thus, lead to creation of fresh list of eligible voters in the State.

Niranjan Rajagopalan, the standing counsel for ECI, said that while SSR merely updates the existing rolls...