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Greater Hyderabad accounts for 59% of uncollectable SIR forms
A status report on Telangana's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) shows that nearly 59% of the state's 70.85 lakh uncollectable enumeration forms are in Greater Hyderabad's three districts, Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri. Hyderabad…
The Story in Brief
A status report on Telangana's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) shows that nearly 59% of the state's 70.85 lakh uncollectable enumeration forms are in Greater Hyderabad's three districts, Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri. Hyderabad district alone has 18.45 lakh such forms (38.96% of its electorate). Sanathnagar has the highest uncollectable rate at 45.66%, while Bahadurpura, at 26.06%, is the lowest in the region but still above the state average of 20.95%.
All seven Old City constituencies have rates above one-third of their electorate except Bahadurpura. However, the anomaly rate, incorrect entries, is much lower in these high-uncollectable constituencies, with Serilingampally at just 9.02% anomalies despite 38.92% uncollectable forms. The report does not specify why forms were classified as uncollectable.
The Indian Opinion
The SIR data exposes a lazy narrative: that voters in Hyderabad are just apathetic. The reality is that uncollectable forms, absent, shifted or dead voters, are concentrated in areas with rapid urbanisation and high migration, not only in Old City pockets. The anomaly rates in these same constituencies are actually lower than the state average. The real test is whether the Election Commission will now actually clean the rolls using Aadhaar linkage and field verification, or let these lakhs of deadwood distort the electoral map for another election.
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, telanganatoday.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
