Nearly 50 pc of Telangana voters yet to submit SIR enumeration forms with nine days left

With only nine days left for Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision enumeration drive, only 49.28 per cent of voters have submitted and digitised their forms. Medchal-Malkajgiri, Hyderabad and Rangareddy recorded the lowest response, raising concerns over timely completion of the exercise.

Hyderabad: With only nine days left for the house-to-house enumeration drive to conclude in Telangana, nearly 50 percent enumeration forms are yet to be submitted by the voters back to the Booth Level Officers (BLOs). This is raising concerns over whether or not the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls exercise will complete on time.

While the enumeration forms distribution stood at 99.99 percent in the State, only 49.28 percent electors submitted their forms and the number of forms were digitised as of Tuesday.

According to the statistics released by the Chief Electoral Officer Telangana, only 18.73 percent Medchal-Malakagiri voters returned their forms to BLOs and same are digitised. This is lowest among all districts in the State.

While all 47,36,669 Hyderabad voters have been handed over their enumeration forms, only 22.22 percent filled up their forms and returned them to their respective BLOs.  Similar trend is observed in Rangareddy district, where 33.43 percent out of 29,76,920 voters submitted their forms and they are digitised.

At 79.86, Yadadri Bhongiri registered the highest percentage of voters submitting their forms, which were digitisatised, followed by Nalgonda district where forms submission and digitisation stood at 73.11 percent.

As per the SIR schedule released by the Election Commission of India, the house-to-house enumeration exercise will complete on July 24 and draft electoral rolls will be published on July 31. Claims and objections, if any, on the draft rolls can be submitted Between July 31 and August 30.

The electoral registration officers (EROs) will issue notices, conduct hearings and verification, decide on enumeration forms, and dispose of claims and objections between July 31 and September 28. The final electoral rolls will be published on October 1.