Telangana’s voter-roll math has two answers
Two September 23 reports cite different figures for lapsed notices, deliveries and final-roll timelines. The Election Commission’s underlying status report is still missing from public view.
Conflicting figures have emerged during Telangana’s electoral-roll revision, while the underlying status report remains unavailable.
Telangana’s electoral-roll revision has produced a backlog—and, apparently, two versions of the arithmetic.
One report, citing a Telangana Chief Electoral Officer status report, said that by 2 p.m. on September 22, 92.88 lakh notices had been generated, 83.72 lakh delivered and 9.15 lakh left undelivered. It reported 40,77,727 lapsed hearing dates, 55,462 lapsed rescheduled dates and about 46 lakh completed hearings. Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri reportedly accounted for 5.6 lakh undelivered notices.
A separate report gave different figures: 83.24 lakh notices served, 9.64 lakh undelivered, 41.84 lakh lapsed notices, more than 56,400 lapsed rescheduled notices and 46.25 lakh voters completing verification. It also reported 30.36 lakh records “parked” pending scrutiny. The report said final publication was scheduled for November 9; an Election Commission schedule released in May lists October 1. The calendar, like the numbers, has acquired a second edition.
The Election Commission’s notice and disposal phase runs from July 31 to September 28. The Telangana CEO website did not yield the underlying status report, so the exact totals and categories remain unverified. What is clear is that voters need one official dashboard—not competing arithmetic.