Hyderabad: The massive exercise of serving notices to nearly 93 lakh electors flagged during Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is off to a slow start, with barely a fraction of the notices delivered so far, chief electoral officer (CEO) C Sudharshan Reddy said on Friday, August 21.
Of the roughly 15 lakh notices generated so far for electors flagged with anomalies or classified as “unmapped,” only about 650 have actually been served, the CEO said, adding that the pace is expected to pick up over the next two days.
In Hyderabad, service of notices is likely to begin within a couple of days, with the CEO noting that notices for the district are currently being printed in English.
The notices follow the publication of the draft electoral rolls on August 17. Across the state, 92.8 lakh electors are due to receive notices, 60.5 lakh flagged for anomalies in their enumeration form data and another 32.3 lakh whose entries could not be mapped to the 2002 SIR rolls.
Hyderabad district alone accounts for around 12.5 lakh electors facing notices, with 5,80,908 classified as unmapped and 6,72,678 flagged for anomalies. The numbers are similarly steep across the wider urban region of Hyderabad, Medchal Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts, where 23.26 lakh electors have been categorised as unmapped.
Why the notices are being issued
An anomaly notice is triggered when details in an elector’s enumeration form throw up inconsistencies, unusual age or relationship gaps such as less than nine months between siblings, less than 15 years or more than 50 years between a parent and child, or less than 40 years between a grandparent and grandchild.
Notices are also generated when enumeration form details clash with 2002 SIR records, including a mismatch in a parent’s name, a changed relationship type (father recorded instead of husband, for instance), different fathers listed for the same elector, inconsistent age gaps, or discrepancies in names and family links.
