Hyderabad: Nearly 71 lakh electors, about 21% of Telangana’s 3.38 crore electorate, have been identified for deletion from the electoral rolls under the special intensive revision (SIR), with Monday (Aug 10), being the last date for submission of enumeration forms. With only 3.2 lakh forms, or less than 1% of the electorate, still to be digitised as of Aug 9, the final deletion figure could rise, indicating that at least one in five electors may be dropped from the rolls.Of the nearly 71 lakh electors identified for deletion or uncollectible forms, 9.1 lakh are recorded as dead, 10.3 lakh absent or untraceable, 43 lakh as permanently shifted and 6.6 lakh as duplicates.Chief electoral officer, Telangana, C Sudharshan Reddy has said all electors falling under the uncollectable category would be deleted.Greater Hyd: Uncollectable EpicentreThe strongest geographical concentration of uncollectable forms is in Greater Hyderabad metropolitan belt. Hyderabad, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts together account for 41.5 lakh uncollectable forms, nearly 58.6% of the state’s 70.8 lakh uncollectable forms.Urban constituencies have recorded particularly high uncollectable rates, a pattern attributed to migration, tenants, locked houses, gated communities, deceased voters and electors who have shifted permanently.The report shows 2.64 crore forms, or 78.1%, as digitised, and verified by booth-level officers (BLOs).North, West T Stand Out On AnomaliesA different SIR pattern is visible in parts of northern and western Telangana, where anomaly rates are considerably higher.At the district level, Adilabad records anomalies in 28.5% of electors, followed by Nizamabad (27.4%), Nirmal (26.1%), Medak (24.6%), Kamareddy (23.9%) and Sangareddy (23.8%).At the assembly constituency level, Adilabad has an anomaly rate of 30.4%, Narayankhed 29.3%, Nizamabad Urban 28.4%, Shadnagar 28.3%, Nirmal 28.29% and Nizamabad Rural 28.1%.The latest SIR figures on the eve of the enumeration form submission deadline, therefore, show two distinct geographical trends: the Hyderabad metropolitan belt accounts for a disproportionate share of uncollectable forms, while several constituencies in northern and western Telangana record some of the state’s highest anomaly rates.
