New Delhi | The Election Commission on Thursday announced the roll out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 16 states and three union territories in a phased manner beginning May 30.

The states and UTs where the SIR will be carried out are Delhi, Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Telangana, Punjab, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Tripura, Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Schedule for SIR in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will be announced later keeping in view weather conditions in snow-bound areas, the EC said in a statement.

During SIR phase 3, over 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers will go house-to-house to 36.73 crore electors.

The SIR has already been conducted in Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.

A "special revision" was conducted in Assam.