The opinion article was authored by Mrs. Kathyayini Chamaraj, Executive Trustee of CIVIC-Bangalore and a Karnataka state coordinator of ADR, and featured in The News Minute.

In the piece, Mrs. Chamaraj argues that the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar was an inefficient, bureaucratic maneuver that failed to achieve its stated goals, leading instead to widespread electoral roll errors and risking the disenfranchisement of genuine citizens.

If only a mere 0.1% residents are likely to be undocumented immigrants, as evidenced in Bihar, is there any logic in this retrospective SIR exercise being conducted country-wide and harassing 96.88 crore citizens, asks the author.

To read more : https://www.thenewsminute.com/voices/opinion-the-sir-in-bihar-was-a-futile-bureaucratic-exercise