New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked election officers in states to be ready for the Special Intensive revision (SIR) by September 30.The move suggests that ECI could launch the country-wide SIR as early as October-November. According to officials, during a conference of the State Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) in New Delhi earlier this month, the EC top brass asked them to be ready for the rollout of the SIR in the next 10 to 15 days, reported Press Trust of India.Thereafter a deadline of September 30 was set for the sake of greater clarity, with the CEOs being told to keep voter lists of their states, published after the last SIR, ready.Delhi and Uttarakhand CEOs have already put up the voter lists published after their last SIR on their websites. While the Delhi CEO has the voter list from 2008, when the last intensive revision took place, the Uttarakhand state CEO’s website has the last SIR that took place in 2006 along with the electoral roll from that year.For the SIR exercise across the country, the last SIR in states will serve as the cut-off date, much like the way the 2003 voter list of Bihar is being used by the EC for intensive revision.The ECI has said that after Bihar, SIR will be carried out in the entire country. In 2026, assembly elections are due in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.Earlier, as the SIR in Bihar was being conducted, the opposition INDIA bloc had termed it as an “exercise in exclusion”, demanding that the poll body give up its “institutional arrogance” and stop the exercise.