SIR forms: last call, or just noise?
Reports say August 10 is the cutoff to hand SIR enumeration forms to BLOs, with “no more extensions.” The official order is missing. Telangana voters can still use Form 6 if names don’t show up in the draft roll, the CEO has said on record.
The reported SIR cutoff has yet to be matched by a published order.
Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is in its final lap, and a report says voters have till Monday, August 10, to hand filled enumeration forms to Booth Level Officers — with “no further extension.” The same report pegs statewide digitisation at 78.14% as of Sunday 6 pm, and lists district-wise rates. Those specifics currently rest on unnamed “sources in the CEO office,” not a published order.
What is on the record: the ECI’s portal is running a dedicated SIR-2026 flow with an online enumeration form. The CEO’s office is the competent state authority under the ECI. And CEO C. Sudharshan Reddy has publicly said that if a voter’s name does not appear in the draft rolls, Form 6 can restore it — so missing the enumeration window is not the end of the franchise.
Earlier coverage in July recorded the ECI extending BLO house-to-house visits to August 3, with the draft roll due August 10, claims and objections from August 10 to September 9, and the final roll on October 12. If August 10 is now being treated as the hand-in cutoff, the CEO/ECI should say so in writing — and soon — so voters are not left guessing the fine print between collection, digitisation and publication.
For the avoidance of the usual Delhi spin: this is an administrative schedule, not a favour from the BJP-led Centre. Telangana voters are doing their part; the election machinery owes them clarity on dates and modes, in public and on time. The Congress and the TDP can save the pressers — a signed order beats a sound bite every time.