SIR proces, submission of form 6- Senior citizens and voters in city seen submitting form 6 and other documents for SIR Special Intensive Revision process at Yeshwanthpur Constituency. in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
Bengaluru/Mysuru: Karnataka has delivered 41.6 lakh of the 43.8 lakh notices generated under the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls over logical discrepancies, and the remaining notices are yet to be sent out as of Friday, according to the chief electoral officer’s (CEO) office. The CEO’s office said 28.8 lakh hearings had been completed, accounting for 69.2% of the delivered notices. The remaining 12.8 lakh hearings are to be completed by Oct 12, while Oct 22 is the deadline for disposal of notices, claims and objections. Names of 250 dead voters and those having multiple voter entries had surfaced in the draft roll in Mysuru. These entries are being removed through Form 7. The chief minister’s home district Ramanagara has completed 91.91% of hearings after generating and delivering all 19,696 notices. Chikkamagaluru has completed 87% of hearings after delivering 99.45% of its 91,610 notices, while Davangere has completed about 85% and Shivamogga 83% of hearings. Bengaluru: Form 7, used to seek removal of names and file objections, is at the centre of a political controversy, with Congress state president BK Hariprasad accusing BJP MLA Abhay Patil of demanding deletion of 2,500 minority voters from his constituency, Belagavi South. Of the 61,130 Form 7 applications received across Karnataka, no voter has sought deletion of another person’s name through this provision.
Mysuru deputy commissioner Lakshmikanth Reddy said they have a month to complete the process. “The number of forms received for objection for proposed inclusion is nil,” the CEO’s office said. The district-wise figures show considerable variation in the pace of hearings.