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Among Kerala districts, Thiruvananthapuram has the highest fig of enumeration forms linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls listed nether the ‘uncollectables’ category.
Of the 25.01 lakh uncollectable forms Statewide, Thiruvananthapuram territory accounts for 4.36 lakh forms, followed by Ernakulam (3.34 lakh) and Thrissur (2.56 lakh). The information was released astatine a play SIR reappraisal gathering of governmental parties chaired by Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar.
According to the CEO’s office, ‘uncollectables’ notation to cases wherever the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are incapable to cod oregon present enumeration forms owed to circumstantial reasons. The categories see deceased and untraceable voters, absent/permanently shifted, already enrolled (duplicate), and others.
If the BLO finds connected verification that a elector is deceased, past he/she is marked arsenic dead. If enquiry reveals that the elector has permanently shifted, the elector is marked arsenic ‘Permanently Shifted oregon Absent.’ In cases wherever a elector has 2 entries astatine antithetic locations and chooses one, the different introduction is classified arsenic ‘Duplicate.’ If voters explicitly authorities that they bash not privation to judge the forms, oregon that they volition not beryllium returning them, the lawsuit is marked nether ‘Others.’
Other districts with a precocious fig of forms successful this class see Palakkad (2 lakh), Kozhikode (1.94 lakh), Kollam (1.68 lakh), Malappuram (1.79 lakh) and Kottayyam (1.66 lakh).
