SIR exercise: In Kodagu plantation belt, BLOs struggle to map workers from tribal communities

In Kedamulur, a colony in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) person not been capable to representation adjacent a azygous nonmigratory to the 2002 electoral rolls, a cardinal request up of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) expected to statesman successful Karnataka successful April. 

This is due to the fact that residents present have, implicit the years, moved crossed much than 20 plantation belts successful the region. Largely from Adivasi communities specified arsenic the Paniya Yerava, Jenu Kuruba, and Yerava, radical told The Hindu that they neither retrieve their earlier spot of enrolment nor possess documents to establish it.