India, May 14 -- The Election Commission of India has announced the launch of phase 3 of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 16 states and three Union Territories, in an exercise to bring the voter lists more up-to-date via a door-to-door enumeration exercise before the upcoming elections. Which states and UTs will be included?

Phase 3 of the SIR will cover wide swaths of the country, including the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Telangana and Uttarakhand, and many of the Northeastern states. However, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been left out of the current plans due to weather and logistical reasons.

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