In Jammu and Kashmir, the State Election Commissioner (SEC), Shantmanu, instructed officials on Monday to prepare for the revision of village council electoral rolls. An Akashvani Jammu correspondent reports that Shantmanu chaired a high-level meeting on Monday to review preparations for the revision of electoral rolls in the Union Territory. The exercise is expected to begin in the fourth week of this month. The meeting was attended by divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners, the commissioners of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation and the Jammu Municipal Corporation, as well as officials from the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department. During the meeting, the SEC instructed officials to be prepared for the upcoming revision of the village council electoral rolls across the Union Territory. The exercise is expected to begin in the fourth week of this month with the unveiling of draft electoral rolls. The process is expected to be completed by the first or second week of May with the publication of final electoral rolls. The electoral roll for Urban Local Bodies will be available only after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is completed in J&K. The electoral roll for assembly polls is used for municipal polls. No revision of electoral rolls for assembly polls has been undertaken since 2021. So, new electoral roll of Assembly is expected to be available only after the SIR exercise. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise is expected to begin in April, as the Election Commission of India (ECI) pointed out in a communique to the Chief Electoral Officers of States and Union Territories. It is worth mentioning that the terms of the first two tiers of the Panchayati Raj system – village councils and block development councils – ended on January 9, 2024, while the tenure of the third tier – district development councils – concluded on February 24, 2026. The tenure of elected Urban Local Bodies came to an end in October-November 2023.