BLOs clear SIR hearings in 8 Hyderabad Assembly segments; Goshamahal tops pending cases

Hyderabad: As part of hearings on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Hyderabad district, the BLOs have completed work in eight of the 15 Assembly constituencies, recording zero pendency. Those constituencies are Musheerabad, Malakpet, Amberpet, Jubilee Hills, Nampally, Charminar, Chandrayangutta and Yakutpura.

GHMC Commissioner and District Election Officer (DEO), RV Karnan released a status report on the SIR process at an all-party meeting held at GHMC head office, Tank Bund on Saturday.

Goshamahal Assembly constituency had the highest number of cases pending for hearing at 8,720, followed by Secunderabad Cantonment with 6,918, Bahadurpura with 2,306, Khairatabad with 1,398, Sanathnagar with 725, Secunderabad with 471 and Karwan with 21, according to Karnan.

Of the 12,54,917 notices generated, 12,54,400, or 99.96%, were distributed, while 517, or 0.04%, remained pending. Documents were collected or hearings attended in 12,33,841 cases, or 98.36%, while 20,559, or 1.64%, were awaiting hearings. The notices included 5,82,217 no-mapping cases and 6,72,700 anomalies, the DEO said.