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Even arsenic the digitisation of filled-up enumeration forms person begun successful earnest nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, predetermination officials are embarking connected an effort to way down voters recovered ‘untraceable’ during the enumeration phase.
Addressing governmental enactment representatives astatine a play reappraisal gathering present connected Saturday, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar enactment this fig astatine 1,19,315. This database includes 8,087 voters listed arsenic ‘untraceable/absent,’ 37,835 voters listed arsenic ‘permanently shifted,’ 66,740 ‘dead,’ 6032 arsenic ‘already enrolled’ and 621 successful the ‘others’ category.
Mr. Kelkar said his bureau was readying to upload the district-wise information online successful a bid to way them down. “We volition besides manus implicit the figures to governmental parties. What we mean is simply a scrutiny of this information by the booth-level officers (BLO) and the booth-level agents (BLA),” helium said. Instructions person been passed down to BLOs to clasp meetings with BLAs aft enumeration forms are returned. “If a untraceable idiosyncratic is known to the BLA, the BLA tin intervene promptly and resoluteness the issue,” Mr. Kelkar said.
Mr. Kelkar expressed assurance that the digitisation of the forms tin beryllium completed smoothly and wrong the December 4 deadline. Presenting an update of the SIR astatine the meeting, Mr. Kelkar said, 99.5% of the enumeration forms person been distributed.
As galore arsenic 26,46,414 enumeration forms person been digitized up to 10 a.m. connected Saturday. This constitutes 9.50% of the full forms distributed successful Kerala. Digitisation camps for assisting the BLOs to upload the information person been acceptable up crossed the State, helium said.
As galore arsenic 47,584 voters person utilized the online enactment to taxable their information for SIR.
Later, speaking to the press, Mr. Kelkar said BLOs were being asked to implicit the workout earlier December 4 truthful arsenic to person the clip to hint voters who person been inadvertently near out.
