Chief Electoral Officer visits Edamalakkudy, reviews SIR progress

Kerala Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rathan U. Kelkar visited Edamalakkudy, the State’s archetypal tribal panchayat successful Munnar, to interact with residents up of the upcoming assembly elections.

According to officials, the sojourn was to reappraisal the advancement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. Kerala has seen important occurrence successful implementing SIR, and authorities program to implicit each related actions 2 days up of schedule.

“We primitively planned to implicit the SIR proceedings by February 14, but volition present beryllium finished 2 days early. The last elector database is acceptable to beryllium published connected February 21,” Mr. Kelkar said. He added that voters who request to see their names oregon marque changes to the database should interaction their booth level serviceman (BLO) oregon electoral registration serviceman (ERO). “Names tin beryllium added to the database until a time earlier the last day for submitting information papers for the assembly election,” helium said.

Mr. Kelkar further said that the SIR proceeding process has already been completed successful 64 assembly constituencies crossed the State.

During the visit, the CEO interacted with tribal assemblage members from the Edalipparakudy, Societykudy, Meenkuthikudy, and Ampalapadikudy settlements. He besides visited the location of 90-year-old elector Doraiswami successful Ampalapadikudy, encouraging him to formed his ballot and to animate others successful the assemblage to bash the same. Additionally, the CEO reviewed the polling booth arrangements astatine the Edamalakkudy Government Tribal UP School.

The CEO was accompanied by Devikulam Sub-Collector V.M. Arya, Deputy Collector Suja Varghese, Munnar Deputy Superintendent of Police (DYSP) S. Chandrakumar, Devikulam Tehsildar G. Ajesh, Range Forest Officer K. Abhilash, and Section Forest Officer K.G. Murali.