Over 6.70 lakh Telangana electors miss SIR hearings, 15,281 skip rescheduled dates

More than 6.70 lakh electors in Telangana missed their SIR hearing dates, while 15,281 failed to attend rescheduled hearings. Hyderabad recorded the highest number of lapsed hearings. Electors must respond to notices by November 5 to retain voting rights

Hyderabad: Hearings under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls have lapsed for more than 6.70 lakh electors in Telangana. Another 15,281 voters who rescheduled their hearings after missing their initial appointments also failed to turn up.

According to data from the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (TG CEO), hearing dates had lapsed for 6,70,299 electors as of Tuesday. Hyderabad accounted for the highest number at 1,50,260, followed by Rangareddy with 1,02,182 and Medchal-Malkajgiri with 78,301.

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Hanamkonda recorded the highest number of electors who missed their rescheduled hearings, at 5,092. Nizamabad followed with 2,572, Hyderabad with 1,942, Rangareddy with 1,155 and Medchal-Malkajgiri with 1,014, as of Tuesday.

Before the commencement of the SIR exercise, Telangana had a total of 3,38,26,448 voters. During the enumeration phase, 2,64,87,213 voters submitted forms, while the remaining 73,39,235 were categorised under the Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD) category.

Among those who submitted enumeration forms, the Election Commission of India (ECI) flagged logical discrepancies and a lack of mapping with the SIR 2002 list for 92,88,188 voters. It generated 92,88,187 notices seeking verification of electors’ documents before their inclusion in the final electoral roll.

Of these, 92,44,446 notices were delivered to electors. Hearings have been completed for 86,02,606 electors, while 78,87,352 have been marked for inclusion in the final voter list, as of Tuesday.

In Medchal-Malkajgiri, 9,07,405 of the 10,71,566 electors flagged for not being mapped with the SIR 2002 list had been marked for inclusion in the final roll. In Hyderabad, which had 19,41,444 unmapped voters, 4,39,151 had been marked for inclusion. Rangareddy had 12,87,091 unmapped voters, of whom 5,35,467 had been marked for inclusion in the final voter list.

Electors who receive notices must respond by November 5 to retain their voting rights. Those who fail to appear for hearings before the deadline will be categorised under ASDD, and their names will be excluded from the final rolls, which are scheduled to be published on November 9. Those left out of the final rolls, as well as youngsters who have attained the age of 18, can submit Form 6 to seek inclusion in the electoral roll.