SIR: over 50,000 hearings held in Ernakulam

Hearings person been held for implicit 50,000 radical successful Ernakulam to reinstate their voting rights arsenic portion of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the State’s elector rolls.

A full of 51,279 hearings were held crossed 14 assembly constituencies successful the territory by Wednesday (January 14, 2025) evening, implicit 9 days since the process began connected January 6.

Notices for hearings person to beryllium issued to a full of 4,71,541 radical successful the district. Of these, notices person been generated for 2,06,306, sources said. In galore cases, 1 idiosyncratic from a household has appeared for the proceeding connected behalf of different members who were besides issued notices.

The maximum fig of hearings has been held successful the Thripunithura constituency (5,919). This is followed by Kunnathunad and Thrikkakara, wherever 5,303 and 5,287 hearings person been held, respectively. Perumbavoor (4,457), Ernakulam (4,268), Kochi (4,190), and Piravom (4,030) are among the constituencies wherever the process has gained momentum.

Kothamangalam is astatine the bottommost of the list, with lone 1,074 hearings held till Wednesday. “Almost each the radical who person attended the proceeding and produced the required individuality proofs person been recovered eligible to beryllium included successful the revised elector roll,” a territory authoritative progressive successful the workout said.

Those who person fallen connected the ‘unmapped’ database pursuing the enumeration signifier of the SIR are being called for hearings. Though they were included successful the draught elector rotation aft the enumeration, they had not been mapped to the basal database of 2002, arsenic nary nexus could beryllium recovered to link the 2 lists for verifying their identities and locations.

Thripunithura, Thrikkakara, Ernakulam, and Kochi are among the constituencies with a higher fig of unmapped voters who are required to acquisition the proceeding process.

The proceeding is being held to verify indicative documents to ascertain an individual’s eligibility arsenic an elector and to corroborate their whereabouts anterior to the past SIR conducted successful 2002. The announcement signifier (hearings and verification) volition extremity connected February 14, and the last database is scheduled to beryllium published connected February 21.