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GBA chief asks Kodagu citizens to call helpline 1950 on SIR errors
Kodagu GBA chief Maheshwar Rao has urged citizens and political party representatives to use the helpline 1950 to report errors in the Special Investigation Report (SIR), the draft voter list for gram…
Kodagu GBA chief Maheshwar Rao has urged citizens and political party representatives to use the helpline 1950 to report errors in the Special Investigation Report (SIR), the draft voter list for gram panchayat elections. Rao said the GBA's helpline will handle doubts and complaints about omissions or incorrect entries in the rolls.
He called on recognised political party office-bearers and polling officials to coordinate for a transparent SIR process. Citizens can also approach their taluk election office in person. The public display of the draft SIR ends on 28 September 2026, after which the GBA publishes the final electoral roll.
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This SIR, or Special Investigation Report, is the third such exercise by the GBA, following the 2021 update that drew similar complaints about errors. For residents of the 2,000-plus villages spread across Kodagu and parts of Mysuru and Hassan districts, the SIR determines everything from voting rights in gram panchayat elections to access to forest land use certificates. Any systematic error forces dozens of villagers per gram panchayat to travel 50-100 km to the taluk office to register corrections, a process that under the existing rules can take until the final voter roll publication in October. The GBA has said the 1950 helpline will log complaints and assign a tracking number, but has not yet disclosed how many field staff have been deployed to verify claims within the two-week correction window.
Source: deccanherald.com
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