ECI extends Telangana SIR claims deadline to November 26, final rolls on November 30

Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday revised the schedule of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana.

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

The ECI revised the schedule as per the request raised by Telangana Chief Electoral Officer C Sudharsan Reddy. Earlier, the deadline for notice phase, and disposal of claims and objections process was November 5, with final electoral rolls publication scheduled for November 9.

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.

A total of 92,81,189 out 92,88,188 SIR notices generated were delivered to voters, leaving 6,999 notices pending for delivery, as of Thursday. Hearings have already been concluded for 92,08,443 notices, while 78,108 first hearing and 1,636 rescheduled hearings have lapsed as of Thursday.

As many as 2,59,22,684 voter names have been cleared for inclusion in the final voter list as of Thursday. Of these, 59,31,395 voters cleared for their logical discrepancies and 30,64,168 were SIR 2002 unmapped electors.

Further, 50,690 electors were found ineligible for inclusion in the final electoral roll.