India, July 8 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Going by the progress of SIR till 6 PM on July 08, it is most likely that the exercise of collection of Enumeration Forms will be completed well before the last day of collection i.e. 25th July 2025. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, is progressing well with 3,70,77,077 Enumeration Forms, which is 46.95% of the total of 7,89,69,844 (nearly 7.90 crore) electors in Bihar, collected (at 6.00 PM) in the first 14 days since the issue of SIR instructions on June 24, 2025.

In the first two weeks of the exercise, 7.90 crore forms were printed and over 97% forms (7,70,44,990) have been distributed to be electors. Also, 18.16% of the forms of have been uploaded...