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Digitisation of astir 75% of enumeration forms has been completed successful Ernakulam territory arsenic portion of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector rolls arsenic of Saturday (November 29, 2025), according to authoritative data. Forms of 1,950,002 of the full 26,53,065 electors successful the territory were completed by booth level officers (BLOs) by 2 p.m. connected Sunday (November 30, 2025). It accounts for 73.5% of the full electors successful the district.
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.
BLOs had been moving overtime to implicit the digitisation process earlier December 4, the archetypal deadline acceptable by the Election Commission of India to decorativeness the enumeration for the SIR. On Sunday, the Commission extended the deadline to December 11.
District Collector G. Priyanka said that the territory medication would effort its champion to transverse 95% of digitisation by December 4, the archetypal deadline.
Urban constituencies lag behind
As per the information compiled till 8 p.m. connected Saturday, the Kothamangalam Assembly constituency was starring the digitisation process with 77.71%. Forms had been distributed to 98.33% of voters successful the constituency. In digitisation, Kothamangalam was followed by Kalamassery (77.56%), Kunnathunad (77.54%), and Paravur (76.92%).
Ernakulam was lagging down successful digitisation with conscionable 51.68%. Thrikkakara and Thripunithura were besides debased connected the list, with 57.35% and 57.67% respectively. Difficulties successful tracing voters and collecting the filled-up forms person been cited arsenic the reasons for the hold successful completing the process successful the halfway municipality constituencies of the district.
BLOs were capable to hint and administer forms to astir each voters successful constituencies specified arsenic Kunnathunad (99.44%), Perumbavoor (99.11%), Angamaly (99.11%), and Aluva (99.05%). Forms were distributed to implicit 95% of voters successful Paravur, Vypeen, Kochi, Piravom, Muvattupuzha, and Kothamangalam.
Forms person been distributed to lone 89.40% of voters successful Ernakulam, 83.73% successful Thripunithura, and 92.05% successful Thrikkakara.
Collector visits P&T Apartment Complex
The District Collector connected Sunday visited a campy organised by the Kanayannur tehsildar to code SIR-related concerns raised by residents of the P&T Apartment Complex astatine Mundamveli.
As galore arsenic 77 families from the erstwhile P&T Colony adjacent the Perandoor Canal, Kadavanthra, were relocated to the flat analyzable built by the Greater Cochin Development Authority successful January 2024. “A conception of the residents had not received the enumeration forms arsenic their constituency had changed. The campy was organised to assistance them benignant retired the issue. The residents besides raised definite different issues relating to the Corporation, Greater Cochin Development Authority, and the usage of funds from the MLA Local Area Development Scheme. Directives were issued to the authorities acrophobic instantly to code the concerns,” the Collector said.
