Lucknow, Feb. 22 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday announced that more than 16.6 million hearings on notices have been held so far under Special Intensive Revision(SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh.

The state's average progress in notice hearings has exceeded 50pc, the Commission informed.

State Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa informed that notices related to non-mapping and logical discrepancies have been issued to 32.6 million voters.

He commended the 11 districts, namely Auraiya, Etah, Ambedkar Nagar, Shamli, Firozabad, Badaun, Azamgarh, Basti, Chitrakoot, Saharanpur, and Mathura, for achieving more than 70 per cent progress in notice hearings.

CEO also stated that the 15 districts including Mau, Balram...