Bihar SIR: Be alert in the second phase of SIR, will you have to give these documents to BLO for name in voter list? :

News Topical, Digital Desk : Under Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2025, the process of adding new name, claim objection, removal of wrong name and correction of name or address has started from August 1. After the success of the first phase through the Election Commission, in the second phase also, BLOs appointed at 77,895 polling stations across Bihar have started working.

Submit documents from 1st August to 1st September

According to the order of SIR, from August 1 to September 1, any voter or political party can fill the prescribed form and submit a claim or objection to the concerned ERO for adding the name of any eligible voter or removing the name of any ineligible voter. In the first phase, the voter whose name is not in the voter list or the name of a new voter is to be added or someone's name is printed incorrectly. For all this, BLOs are deployed at the concerned polling stations from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Apart from this, special camps have also been set up at block offices and urban body centers. If you want to add a new name, then you have to go to the polling center with Form No. 6 and residential certificate. Along with this, birth certificate is also necessary, if there is no birth certificate then matriculation certificate is also valid. If that is also not there, then if you give any certificate of parents to the BLO, then the name will be included in the voter list.

If someone's name is printed incorrectly and you want to remove his name, then you will have to provide full proof for it and also tell the reason for it. According to the rules, the claims and objections will be executed through the concerned ERO/AERO only after seven days. According to SIR orders, the name of any voter cannot be removed from the draft list published on August 1, 2025 without passing a Speaking Order through the competent ERO.

1.60 lakh booth level agents involved in SIR process

New voter cards will be provided to all eligible voters, so all voters have been requested to provide their new photo to their BLO by September 1, 2025. The Election Commission has claimed that the list of voters removed from the draft list of August 1, 2025 has also been given to the political parties on verification. About 1.60 lakh booth level agents (BLAs) nominated by the district presidents of all the 12 recognized political parties of the state are participating in the SIR process and playing an active role in the field.