voters

Hyderabad

Applied for Telangana Family Register Certificate? What to do next

Hyderabad: Many citizens, after the announcement of the Telangana Family Register Certificate, rushed to MeeSeva to apply online. Some of them applied as early as July 27, the day when the information…
Andhra Pradesh

SIR in Andhra: Over 15L voters deceased, 7.7 lakh untraceable

Amaravati: The SIR in Andhra Pradesh has so far identified over 15 lakh deceased electors, more than 14 lakh who have permanently shifted and even over seven lakh enrolled at multiple places.…

Telangana

Telangana CM warns Congress leaders against negligence in SIR

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has once again asked all the party leaders to focus on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and warned that negligence will…
Hyderabad

Telangana CEO orders probe into assault on women BLOs in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C Sudershan Reddy has directed the police to take immediate action in connection with the assault of women Booth Level Officers (BLO) and submit a compliance report…
Hyderabad

Telangana’s 100 pc SIR form distribution claim explained

Hyderabad: Almost all 33 districts reported 100 per cent distribution of enumeration forms under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana. A senior election officer told Siasat.com that the…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad achieves 100 pc SIR EF distribution, digitisation slow

Hyderabad: Hyderabad has achieved 100 per cent distribution of Enumeration Forms (EFs) under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 in Telangana. However, the city continues to record slow progress in digitisation…
Hyderabad

For Hyderabad’s elderly, SIR is a bureaucratic maze in futility

Hyderabad: Mohammed Nargis has spent most of her adult life fending for herself. Widowed soon after her children were born, she raised them alone, working as a butcher, a trade tied to her…

Hyderabad

SIR in Hyderabad: Submitted form online? Here’s what to do next

Hyderabad: In the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana, enumeration forms can be submitted either online or offline. Those who opt for the offline process need…
Hyderabad

SIR in Hyderabad: Issue of deleted voters with EPIC card flagged

Hyderabad: In every assembly or Lok Sabha election in Telangana, there is one common complaint by the voters- “My vote got deleted from the electoral rolls.” These are not just isolated incidents,…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad sets up 16 help desks for SIR enumeration process

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad district administration has set up 16 help desks at Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) offices to assist voters during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Each help desk has…
India

Less than 1 pc of SIR cases cleared in 100 days in Bengal

Kolkata: In the 100 days since starting operations, SIR tribunals in West Bengal have cleared 30,000 cases, less than 1 per cent of the state’s 33 lakh pending appeals, The Times of…
News

SIR: Restore residency certificates, NGOs urge Telangana CM

Hyderabad: Two civil society organisations have written to Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy seeking urgent measures to ensure the timely issuance of permanent residency, caste and family member certificates in the wake…
Hyderabad

Use SIR route for restore voter names: HC to Hyderabad family

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday, June 30, declined to intervene in a plea challenging the deletion of a Hyderabad family’s names from the electoral roll, holding that the ongoing Special Intensive…
Bangalore

SIR begins in Bengaluru from June 30, over 8,900 BLOs deployed

Bengaluru: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will commence across Karnataka from June 30, with the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) completing elaborate preparations for the month-long verification exercise. The door-to-door…
Telangana

SIR: Telangana logs 1.73 crore enumeration forms in four days

Hyderabad: Telangana’s election machinery has completed nearly 1.73 crore enumeration forms in just four days under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said on Monday, June…