By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
The Election Commission of India on Thursday directed the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in 16 states including Uttarakhand and 3 Union Territories (UTs).
The exercise which will begin with preparation, training and printing from May 20 would continue till the year end with the publication of final electoral rolls.
With this, the SIR of Electoral Rolls will cover the entire country in Phase-III except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
After considering the completion of Phase-II of the Census in these three State/UTs and due consideration of the weather in the upper reaches/ snow bound areas, SIR schedule for these three State/UTs will be announced later.
During SIR Phase-III over 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will go house-to-house to 36.73 crore electors assisted by 3.42 lakh Booth Level Agents (BLAs) appointed by political parties during the Enumeration Phase. State/UT wise details of BLOs and BLAs are at Annexure-II.
SIR is a participative exercise involving all stakeholders including electors, political parties and election officials. ECI requests all political parties to appoint BLAs for each Polling Booth, in order to ensure full participation of political parties so that SIR is conducted with complete transparency and full participation of political parties.
In the first two phases of the SIR in 13 States/UTs covering nearly 59 crore electors as on the date of order of SIR in the respective States/UTs, over 6.3 lakh BLOs and 9.2 lakh BLAs appointed by political parties were involved in various stages of the SIR process.
According to the EC schedule, the house-to-house visit by BLOs is slated between May 30 and October 14 this year across the 16 states and UTs, while publication of draft electoral rolls will take place from July 5 till October 21.
16 states and 3 UTs are:
1 Odisha
2. Mizoram
3. Sikkim
4. Manipur
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6. Uttarakhand
7. Andhra Pradesh
8. Arunachal Pradesh
9. Haryana
10. Chandigarh
11. Telangana
12. Punjab
13. Karnataka
14. Meghalaya
15. Maharashtra
16. Jharkhand
17. Delhi
18. Nagaland
19. Tripura