Urban bodies in Ernakulam lag behind in SIR fieldworks as BLOs struggle to trace voters

Distribution of enumeration forms arsenic portion of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector rolls successful halfway municipality areas of the Ernakulam territory remains a situation for the booth-level officers (BLOs), going by the presumption study of the tract work.

While forms person been handed implicit to astir voters successful 11 of the 14 Assembly constituencies successful the district, 3 segments —Thripunithura, Ernakulam, and Thrikkakara — covering halfway metropolis areas person been lagging down successful the organisation of forms, arsenic of the presumption study of information processed till 12 noon connected Saturday (November 15, 2025). Forms were distributed to lone 70% of the voters successful the 3 segments, portion the figures person crossed 80% successful astir of the remaining segments.

Kunnathunad and Angamaly person topped the organisation illustration with forms fixed to 93.67% and 93.66% of voters successful the segments respectively. In Kunnathunad, forms were distributed to 1,77,870 of full 18,98,81 voters, and to 1,68,402 of 1,79,808 successful Angamaly. Other segments wherever implicit 90% of forms were distributed are Aluva (90.86%) and Vypeen (91.67%). Perumbavoor, Kalamassery, Muvattupuzha, and Kothamangalam person recorded organisation of implicit 85% forms.

Thripunithura has recovered itself astatine the stone bottommost of the database with forms distributed to lone 67.24% of voters. Ernakulam and Thrikkakara person distributed forms to 70.76% and 70.73% respectively. The forms person been distributed to little than 50% of voters successful 21 booths successful Thripunithura, and successful 15 booths each successful Ernakulam and Thrikkakara.

District officials arsenic good arsenic the BLOs engaged successful the segments person cited the municipality quality of the segments for the debased figures. BLOs person cited difficulties successful tracing voters successful the metropolis areas, galore of them believed to person moved to different locations.

District Collector G. Priyanka has initiated measures to hole the spread including convening meetings with representatives of residents associations and flat owners associations seeking their practice to implicit procedures, too urging those extracurricular the territory to marque usage of the online facilities to capable up the enumeration forms. She has besides urged voters, if they were yet to get enumeration forms, to marque usage of the online installation to find the interaction details of the BLOs concerned.

A full of 22,00,565 forms were distributed successful the district, accounting for 82.94% of 26,53,065 full voters, arsenic of Saturday noon.