{
  "id": 10871706,
  "title": "EC rolls back SIR add-on in Form 6",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/ec-rolls-back-sir-add-on-in-form-6",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-30T05:51:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Economic Times",
    "slug": "the-economic-times",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/election-commission-rolls-back-sir-add-on-in-form-6-for-new-voters-in-states-where-revision-is-complete/articleshow/134582849.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Election Commission has removed the extra SIR declaration from online voter registration Form 6 in states where the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is finished. This requirement, which distressed two of the Commission's three members, asks new candidates to provide data linking themselves or their parents or grandparents to previous intensive roll revisions. It remains on the ECINET portal in areas where SIR persists. After SIR finishes, the declaration has been taken out of the ECINET app and portal, as well as the portals of individual Chief Electoral Officers. Candidates there will now only fill the official Form 6 outlined in the Registration of Electors Rules of 1960.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "EC removes SIR add-on from Form 6",
    "SIR requirement removed in completed revision states",
    "Form 6 now standard for candidates"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The Election Commission's removal of the extra SIR declaration from Form 6 in certain states eases voter registration requirements for new candidates in those areas.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}