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Thiruvananthapuram: As part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of the voters list, notices will be issued in advance to 19.32 lakh individuals who have till date failed to provide the required documents and data to the concerned electoral officers.
A week’s time is provided to ensure the applicant is given adequate time to organize the necessary documents for the hearing that is set to be conducted. The BLO’s will send the notices one week in advance and the Electoral Registration Officers (ERO’s) will determine the specific dates for hearing.
ERO’s are likely to conduct the hearings at the residences of those applicants above the age of 80 on health grounds. However, there wont be any online facility for hearings.
"Notices will be issued to all those who have to appear for the hearing. We
Political parties may also keep Booth Level Assistants at booth levels to sort out the issues pertaining to voters while filling the necessary portions for the complete registration.
District collectors instructed to deploy 2 officers each to ensure no eligible voters are left out
In a government order issued by the general administration department on Friday, district collectors have been instructed to deploy two officers each to these help desks to ensure that eligible voters are not left out of the process.
Over 24,08,503 distributed enumeration forms were not returned, of which 14.61 lakh were marked as either ‘absent’, ‘untraceable’, ‘permanently shifted’ or ‘enumeration form shifted’, while 6.49 lakh were declared deceased.
Another 1.36 lakh were listed under ‘others’.
In addition, the order also mentions about 19.32 lakh people who have been included in the draft roll need to furnish more documents for final approval. Combined, over 43.4 lakh people in the state may have to furnish documents for hearing and further processing. The help desks are meant to ease this process.
