New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Election Commission of India's (ECI) notices issued to several public figures, including former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash (retd), Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, and Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami, under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are "system-generated" and triggered by data inputs in the enumeration forms, poll panel officials have said.

Election Commission officials told HT that CEO offices in states and Union territories in phase two of the SIR exercise will implement facilitation measures on the lines of those adopted in West Bengal. Officials said the exemption from personal appearance in SIR hearings will apply to electors who are temporarily outside their place of resid...