Telangana SIR: 54,863 electors found ineligible for final voter list

Hyderabad: The names of 91.72 lakh electors who were issued notices as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are set to figure in the final electoral rolls in Telangana.

While 92,88,188 notices have been generated, 92,87,963 have been served on electors over logical discrepancies and the absence of SIR 2002 mapping in their enumeration forms. Hearings for 92,78,967 electors have been completed, while 9,128 first-time hearings and 93 rescheduled hearings had lapsed as of Saturday.

Among the electors who attended the hearings, 91,72,454 have been marked for inclusion in the final electoral rolls so far. Of them, 60,06,722 had earlier been flagged for logical discrepancies, such as mismatches in names and ages, while another 31,65,732 electors were cleared after their SIR 2002 mapping was verified. With these inclusions, the total electorate in the State stood at 2,63,18,514 as of Saturday.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) found 54,863 electors ineligible for inclusion in the final electoral rolls. Of these, 21,514 voters failed to submit the required documents to resolve their logical discrepancies, while another 33,349 electors could not establish a link with the previous SIR list of 2002.

Rangareddy district topped the list of ineligible electors with 13,436, followed by Peddapalli with 4,933. Hyderabad, which has the highest number of voters in the State, recorded just 2,472 ineligible electors.

“Most of the voters who submitted enumeration forms will be back on the final rolls. Electors who were registered earlier but whose names are missing from the draft rolls can submit Form 6 afresh,” official sources said.

Before the SIR exercise began, Telangana had 3,38,26,448 voters, of whom 2,64,87,213 submitted enumeration forms. The remaining 73,39,235 electors were categorised under Absent, Shifted, Death and Duplicate (ASDD) entries and were removed from the draft electoral rolls.

As per the revised schedule, the SIR notice phase and the process of disposal of claims and objections will conclude on November 26. The final electoral rolls will be published on November 30.