About the 2002 SIR

What is the 2002 Special Intensive Revision?

A landmark effort by India's Election Commission to clean and update voter rolls ahead of the 2004 general elections.

What is the SIR 2002?

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of 2002 was a nationwide electoral roll revision exercise conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI). It was one of the most comprehensive door-to-door verifications ever undertaken in Indian electoral history.

The SIR was conducted with reference to January 1, 2003 as the qualifying date. This means every citizen who was 18 years or older on that date was eligible for enrollment.

The revision covered all 28 states and 7 Union Territories, involving tens of thousands of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) who went door-to-door to verify and update voter information.

Why Do These Records Matter?

Proof of citizenship residency at a specific location in 2002
Historical record of family names and father's/husband's name
Useful for genealogy and ancestral address verification
Relevant for property and land record cross-references
Academic and legal research involving historical voter data
Verification for NRIs tracing their Indian electoral history

How MySIR Helps

Before MySIR, accessing 2002 SIR data meant downloading large PDFs, manually scrolling through hundreds of scanned pages, and dealing with OCR errors and spelling inconsistencies.

MySIR solves this by:

  1. 1Digitizing official SIR PDFs using Tesseract OCR and structured parsing
  2. 2Indexing all records in a PostgreSQL database with full-text search
  3. 3Enabling fuzzy name matching via pg_trgm similarity to handle spelling variations
  4. 4Converting current age to 2002 age automatically for accurate matching
  5. 5Ranking results by a weighted confidence score combining name, father name, location, and age

Geographic Coverage

28+
States
600+
Districts
4,000+
Constituencies
2.5M+
Records Indexed

Important Disclaimer

MySIR is an independent, unofficial tool that helps citizens access public electoral roll data from 2002. The data is sourced from officially published voter rolls of the Election Commission of India. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Election Commission or any government body. For official verification, please visit eci.gov.in.