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The two-day peculiar thrust to cod the filled-in enumeration forms has evoked mean effect from voters successful Tiruchi.
The thrust was portion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which seeks to guarantee accuracy of the electoral rolls by identifying the absent, shifted, oregon dormant voters and duplicate entries (ASDD) and see caller voters who volition beryllium 18 connected January 1, 2026. The existing voters are matched with the erstwhile SIR conducted successful 2002 oregon 2005.
According to sources, much than 22 lakh retired of the 23.68 lakh voters successful the territory person been distributed the enumeration forms arsenic connected November 20 successful the district. The enumerators, who cod the filled-in enumeration forms, upload them connected a regular basis. Data of astir 8 lakh voters, who person submitted the filled-in enumeration forms person been matched and uploaded truthful acold successful Tiruchi district.
To cod the filled successful forms, a peculiar thrust was conducted connected Saturday and Sunday. The voters were asked to manus implicit the forms to the Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) astatine their respective polling booths. Help desks were functioning. The effect to the thrust was said to beryllium nominal. While much voters came to the booths connected Saturday, the enthusiasm among the voters was little connected Sunday.
At a polling booth set up astatine St. John’s Vestry Anglo Indian School successful Tiruchi, which is portion of the Tiruchi West constituency, 50 voters handed implicit the forms connected Saturday. The fig was conscionable 20 connected Sunday. The percent of collected forms successful the booth, which has 797 votes, successful the peculiar thrust has not crossed 10%. The enumerator has truthful acold distributed 750 forms. The fig of collected forms stood astatine 400 connected Sunday. Similar is the effect successful respective different booths arsenic well.
“We expected that the effect would beryllium immense during the two-day drive. However, we find that the effect is moderate. We bash not cognize the reasons,” an enumerator told The Hindu.
Another enumerator said voters surviving successful thickly populated areas and municipality slums had been showing involvement successful collecting the forms and returning the filled-in forms. The governmental parties had extended enactment to execute the drive. However, the effect was not that bully among the voters successful upscale areas and apartments.
With conscionable 10 days near for the SIR to conclude, the field-level enumerators said that it was hard to implicit the task wrong the abbreviated period. New methods should beryllium introduced to scope retired to absent and shifted voters. More intensive consciousness programmes should beryllium organised.
