Polling station-wise special drives under consideration in SIR exercise

Polling station-wise peculiar drives tin beryllium considered for ensuring 100% enumeration successful the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar said connected Saturday.

Mr. Kelkar was responding to a proposition by M.K. Rahman of the Congress that predetermination officials should see organising peculiar drives astatine a play reappraisal gathering of governmental parties connected SIR. Mr. Kelkar said that specified drives tin beryllium considered for radical who person not received the enumeration forms oregon person failed to instrumentality them connected time.

Addressing the governmental enactment representatives, Mr. Kelkar said the organisation of enumeration forms were lagging somewhat successful the municipality areas. The organisation volition beryllium stepped up with assistance from the residents’ associations and booth-level agents (BLA) of the governmental parties, helium said.

Later, Mr. Kelkar’s bureau said successful a connection that booth-level officers (BLO) person been issued strict directions that the information connected distributed enumeration forms should beryllium updated lone aft ensuring that the forms are really distributed to voters. Political parties had drawn his attraction to reports that BLOs successful definite areas were being instructed to amusement 100% organisation adjacent if they had not distributed the forms.

Mr. Kelkar said Deputy Collectors (Election) and Electoral Registration Officers person informed him that they person not travel crossed specified an issue.