Hyderabad: Ahead of the upcoming parliamentary, District Election Officers from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) are taking measures to ensure free elections. After conducting a detailed survey, a number of duplicate, dead and shifted voters were removed from the voters’ list and a revised list was published.
An official statement issued on Wednesday, April 17, asserted that “sincere efforts were made to sure that polling stations are located not only in reachable areas but also adhere to all ECI norms.”
The statement said a total of 47,141 dead voters, 4,39,801 shifted voters, and 54,259 duplicate voters, (totalling 541201 voters) have been removed from the electoral roll duly following the instructions of the ECI.
Additionally, during the purification of electoral rolls, the district election officer, in Hyderabad, observed that many voters had non-standard house numbers on the roll. “A total of 1,81,405 such voters were identified in Hyderabad, and corrections were made to their house numbers,” the statement said.
It further said that a total of 3,78,713 corrections were made so that split voters in a family were brought to one polling station to ensure voter facilitation and improve polling percentage.
It is important to note that the identification and elimination of PSEs, DSEs, dead, and shifted voters, the purification of Electoral Rolls was accomplished. Below are the constituency-wise tabulated details of the work done by BLOs, EROs, and other officials to ensure the purity of the elections, according to the official press release.
