Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls
Quick dive
- The ECI announced SSR in 17 States and Union Territories, including poll-bound Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
- SSR seeks to enrol new voters and update rolls; it was stalled the previous year amid the SIR controversy.
- Form 6 is used for enrolment and Form 8 for changes in an elector’s details, including EPIC particulars.
- The ECI said draft and final lists would be displayed at polling booths and BLOs would undertake house-to-house visits.
- exam_relevance: tests the article-specific special summary revision of electoral rolls fact, institution and exact legal/data point; it echoes recurring UPSC patterns on constitutional bodies, statutory schemes, environmental designations, external-sector data and rights-based governance.
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