Hyderabad: The massive exercise of serving notices to nearly 93 lakh electors flagged during Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is yet to gather pace, with only a fraction of the notices delivered so far, chief electoral officer (CEO) C Sudharshan Reddy said on Friday.The CEO said around 15 lakh notices have been generated for electors identified with anomalies or categorised as “unmapped”, but only about 650 notices have been served so far. He said the process is expected to pick up over the next two days.In Hyderabad, service of notices is likely to begin within a couple of days as notices are currently being printed in English, he added.The notices were issued following the publication of the draft electoral rolls on Aug 17. Across the state, 92.8 lakh electors are slated to receive notices, including 60.5 lakh flagged for anomalies in their enumeration form data and another 32.3 lakh whose entries could not be mapped to the 2002 SIR rolls.Hyderabad district alone accounts for around 12.5 lakh electors facing notices. Of these, 5,80,908 have been classified as unmapped, while 6,72,678 have been flagged for anomalies.The numbers are equally significant across the core urban region comprising Hyderabad, Medchal Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts, where 23.26 lakh electors have been categorised as unmapped.Age, family link mismatchesAn anomaly notice is generated when information furnished in an elector’s enumeration form reveals inconsistencies. These include unusual age or relationship gaps, such as less than nine months between siblings, less than 15 years or more than 50 years between a parent and child, and less than 40 years between a grandparent and grandchild.Notices may also be triggered by discrepancies when enumeration form details are compared with the 2002 SIR records. These include differences in a parent’s name, a change in the type of relative recorded, such as father instead of husband, different fathers being recorded for the same elector, variations in age differences, or inconsistencies in names and family links.
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