SIR exercise in Mysuru: Officials told to ensure error-free voter rolls

Key points

• With the Election Commission gearing up for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, election authorities on Wednesday conducted a divisional-level training workshop in Mysuru for officials from eight districts, with an emphasis on ensuring an error-free revision process and preventing exclusion of eligible voters.
• The workshop, held at the Abdul Nazir Sab Hall in the Zilla Panchayat premises, brought together Additional Deputy Commissioners, Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), election tahsildars and district technical programme managers from all eight districts of the Mysuru division.
• Addressing the officials, Mysuru Deputy Commissioner G.
• Lakshmikanth Reddy stressed that voting is a fundamental democratic right and directed officials to discharge their responsibilities with utmost diligence during the revision exercise.
• “No eligible voter should be deprived of the right to vote,” he said.