The Hindu : We are doing a thorough job: Commissioner

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Sunday, Dec 28, 2003

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

We are doing a thorough job: Commissioner

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD DEC. 27. The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) which has so far verified 2.28 lakh of the staggering 7.88 lakh claims received by it for inclusion in the voter list, has cleared only 1.34 lakh claims.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the MCH Commissioner, Chitra Ramachandran, said another 100 teams with staff drawn from different departments have been pressed into service for finishing the verification task. Nearly 470 teams are already on the job sifting through the high number of claims in the 13 Assembly Constituencies that fall under the corporation's jurisdiction.

Among the residual electors, the teams went through 3.41 lakh claims and found that one-third were fit for deletion, she said. Extra teams were also being deployed in some constituencies that Mrs. Ramachandran described as `complicated ones'.

The Commissioner said the whole work was proceeding as per schedule and expressed confidence of completing the work by the deadline of January 20. The preliminary work including readying the mother rolls, was already attended to and only the additions and deletions, once verification was completed, were needed to be done.

Asked about the comments made by K.J. Rao, a member of Election Commission team, on certain `guidelines and instructions of the Commission not being followed', Mrs. Ramachandran described these as technical ones in nature. "Mr. Rao is here to guide and tell us where we are going wrong," she remarked.

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