Ernakulam district completes nearly 98% of SIR digitisation

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Ernakulam territory is nearing completion, with astir 98% of enumeration forms being digitised adjacent arsenic a week remains till the revised deadline to decorativeness the work. District Collector G. Priyanka presented the presumption of the enumeration works successful the 14 assembly constituencies astatine a gathering held with representatives of assorted governmental parties connected Thursday (December 11).

Digitisation of forms has gone supra 99% successful Kothamangalam, Kunnathunad, and Vypeen assembly constituencies. Over 98% of the enactment has been completed successful each but 3 assembly segments. While Thripunithura and Thrikkakara person recorded 96.7% and 95.41% of digitisation, respectively, Ernakulam constituency is astatine the bottommost of the database with 94.59%.

The latest figures are successful tune with the inclination of constituencies with sizeable municipality areas lagging successful the SIR works since the process started connected November 4. The trouble successful tracing voters successful municipality areas with a floating colonisation has been cited arsenic the superior crushed for the hold successful the enumeration process. The territory medication has present turned to the booth-level agents (BLAs), who are representatives of governmental parties, to decorativeness the pending enactment successful municipality areas. The enumeration works are conducted by the booth-level officers (BLOs) deputed by the territory administration.

“The assistance of BLAs is required to implicit the digitisation successful the 3 constituencies. A gathering of BLAs on with BLOs volition beryllium held successful each assembly segments successful the territory connected December 15 and 16,” the Collector said successful a connection aft the meeting.

Digitisation of astir 75% of enumeration forms was completed successful the territory by the extremity of November. However, the works had slowed down since then, with the administrative machinery uncovering itself engaged with section assemblage elections, authoritative sources said.

The BLOs person been digitising some the forms collected backmost from voters and those placed successful the ‘uncollectable’ category. Forms of voters who person died, shifted to different location, oregon moved overseas are categorised arsenic ‘uncollectable’ successful the digitisation process carried retired done the BLOApp.

Sub-Collector Grandhe Sai Krishna and Deputy Collector (election) Sunil Mathew were among the officials who attended the conscionable connected Thursday. The SIR successful Kerala is scheduled to beryllium completed by December 18 aft the Election Commission of India doubly extended the archetypal deadline of December 4.