India, May 14 -- The Election Commission announced the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across 16 states and three Union Territories from May 30.

The states and UTs where the SIR will be carried out are Delhi, Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Telangana, Punjab, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Tripura, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

It excluded Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh from the exercise for now, citing weather-related challenges and operational constraints in snow-bound and high-altitude areas.

According to the ECI, the schedule for Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and L...