Telangana CEO directs BLOs not to seek physical SIR forms from online applicants

The Telangana Chief Electoral Officer has instructed Booth Level Officers not to insist on physical enumeration forms from voters who have completed the SIR process online. The clarification follows complaints about duplicate submissions and confusion over acknowledgement messages.

Hyderabad: The BLOs have been asked not to insist on the submission of physical enumeration forms from voters who completed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process online.

Chief Electoral Officer, Telangana, C Sudarshan Reddy, issued an official communication on July 7 following reports that BLOs were insisting on physical enumeration forms despite electors having submitted their enumeration form online.

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However, even after specific instructions, a few BLOs continued to collect physical enumeration forms in some polling stations. A BLO said, “We are not demanding the forms but accepting them, in case any doubts arise in the enumeration forms during the draft electoral rolls.”

In some instances, the voters complained that though they submitted online enumeration forms, they did not receive either an acknowledgement or an SMS alert. As part of the proof of the document, voters visited the polling stations and submitted the enumeration forms.

BLOs clarified that if the enumerator filled out the enumeration form correctly, the portal would accept it and the process would be stated as completed. They said that if any information was filled out wrongly and the portal did not accept it, the elector had to resubmit the enumeration form with the correct details.