Municipal employees scanning SIR forms after receiving it from voters in Sangareddy on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF The near 100% distribution of enumeration forms claimed by the Hyderabad district electoral authorities as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls appears like an exaggeration officials are resorting to, in order to…
Nagpur: With Special Intensive Revision (SIR) entering its final fortnight, district administration has begun encouraging voters in several polling areas to visit designated facilitation centres, schools and community halls instead of waiting only for repeated door-to-door visits by booth level officers (BLOs). Officials clarified that the arrangement is part of the ongoing exercise and is…
New applicants seeking inclusion in the electoral rolls will now have to provide details of their parents’ status in the last Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with the Election Commission making the declaration mandatory for online voter registration, officials said. The requirement has been added to Form 6, the statutory form used by first-time voters,…
Dakshina Kannada district BJP president Satish Kumpala addresses reporters at the BJP office in Mangaluru on Saturday. Also seen are Mangaluru City South MLA D. Vedavyas Kamath and MLC Kishore Kumar Puttur. | Photo Credit: Supplied Picture The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise provides an opportunity for the district administration to trace illegal Bangladeshi…
Hubballi: More than 1.7 lakh students who have shifted from one school to another across Karnataka are yet to receive transfer certificates (TCs) from their previous schools. Though they have already joined new schools, the delay has created hurdles in biometric attendance, and in the distribution of eggs, textbooks and uniforms in govt schools. Educationists…
Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath addresses media in Mangaluru on Wednesday Mangaluru: Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath on Wednesday accused the Congress-led state govt of creating administrative chaos by disrupting birth and death registration services.Kamath told reporters that the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) had put up a notice stating that applications…
Leave the earlier sections blank and furnish their present details in the form, the DEO told voters Hyderabad: Amid confusion over filling enumeration forms as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Hyderabad district election officer (DEO) RV Karnan said voters need not panic if they are unable to find their details or those of…
BLOs carry out voter verification in Ranchi Ranchi: For the benefit of existing electors and to ensure enumeration under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is completed at the earliest, the office of CEO (chief electoral officer) has prepared an animation video in English and Hindi explaining how to fill up the form….
The ruling Congress and the Opposition continued to spar over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with Karnataka BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra accusing the State government of “facilitating violations” and Home Minister Priyank Kharge asserting that the State government was neither framing the rules nor directing Booth Level Officers (BLOs) on how…
MLC Ivan D’Souza addressing media in Mangaluru Saturday Mangaluru: Calling Mangaluru’s underground drainage network the city’s biggest civic challenge, MLC Ivan D’Souza alleged that despite rapid growth, successive state and central govts had failed to implement a comprehensive underground drainage (UGD) project, limiting efforts to minor repairs.Addressing mediapersons on Saturday, D’Souza said the Karnataka Legislature’s…
