India, Jan. 23 -- The Election Commission has eased the process for responding to a hearing notice issued under the Uttar Pradesh Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list.

Now, if a notice for an SIR hearing is issued, the concerned voter could nominate someone else to appear on their behalf.

In a press release by the UP Chief Electoral Officer, Navdeep Rinwa, proceedings have begun to sequentially issue notices to voters whose mapping could not be done using the 2003 SIR voter list based on the details provided in their enumeration forms.

"Hearings on the notices issued according to the prescribed procedure are being conducted by all Electoral Registration Officers and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers across the sta...