Pre-SIR mapping picks up speed in Hyderabad, reaches 37%

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An authoritative  checks electoral details related to the SIR connected  a mobile telephone  portion    holding an ECI elector  ID paper  successful  Hyderabad connected  May 7, 2026.

An authoritative checks electoral details related to the SIR connected a mobile telephone portion holding an ECI elector ID paper successful Hyderabad connected May 7, 2026. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna

The mapping of electors, arsenic a prelude to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, has shifted gears successful the Hyderabad territory with the constitution of assistance desks crossed its 15 Assembly constituencies.

The pre-SIR mapping involves linking each elector to the SIR of 2002, utilizing either their ain registration oregon the registration of their parents oregon grandparents arsenic voters.

The mapping has surged from 28% to 37% successful a substance of 2 weeks and is picking up speed, officials informed. The process is being intimately monitored, and regular targets are being acceptable for the Booth Level Officers, supervisors, and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers.

More than 300 assistance desks person been established crossed the city, with astatine slightest 20 successful each constituency, to assistance voters successful uncovering their constituency and polling presumption for the 2002 SIR.

As a result, the fig of regular mappings has accrued phenomenally, officials said. In March, erstwhile the mapping was successful its archetypal stages, lone astir 1,000 to 1,200 voters were being matched per day, which has present risen to a minimum of 10,000 per day.

“For the past 10 days, the numbers person picked up a large deal. On Wednesday, we person acceptable a grounds of 32,000 voters mapped,” an authoritative informed.

The precocious concluded Assembly polls person highlighted the value of SIR mapping, with respective people, including the outgoing Chief Minister of Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, blaming the deletion of a ample fig of voters arsenic portion of SIR for the decision of her party, the All India Trinamool Congress.

While the deletions successful West Bengal person created sizeable anxiousness among voters who person shifted homes respective times since the erstwhile SIR, officials question to allay these fears, stating that it is simply a regular workout conducted periodically to cleanable up the voters’ list.

“It is the occupation of the BLOs to representation the voters. If mapping cannot beryllium done for immoderate reason, the BLOs visiting door-to-door during SIR volition adhd the residents to the database aft taking their details,” Commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, and Hyderabad District Election Officer R.V.Karnan said.

In Hyderabad, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has already begun securing its electorate successful the Old City by mounting up its ain assistance desks for mapping. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi excessively has begun to actively enactment successful the mapping, with its legislators Talasani Srinivas Yadav, T.Padma Rao Goud and Muta Gopal taking banal of the concern and offering the services of their booth-level agents for speeding up the process.

Of the full 46,79,518 electors, 17,17,224 person been successfully mapped truthful far, clocking 36.7% mapping. The unmapped voters stay astatine 29,62,294.

Bahadurpura topped the charts, achieving 47% mapping, with Karwan adjacent down astatine 45%. Charminar has completed 42.5% mapping, portion Yakutpura has astir reached 40%. Secunderabad Cantonment recorded the lowest mapping, astatine conscionable nether 30%.

Published - May 08, 2026 09:25 americium IST

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