Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will also be enumerating the Backward Classes among the electors in the 13 Assembly constituencies during the ongoing partly intensive revision of voters' lists.

This will be done when teams go house-to-house to take photographs of electors not having Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) or had missed appearing at the designated photography locations in the last few months for inclusion in draft photo voters roll.

Additional Commissioner (Elections) G. Ravi Babu said BCs enumeration was being taken up as wards have been reserved for them in the elected council of GHMC. Civic polls were last held in 2002 and are very much due here.

Last date

While the last date for filing claims and objections is June 20, about 30,685 names were received for inclusion in the electoral lists, 541 were filed for deletions, 4,330 for corrections and 529 for moving to a different place so far in the last one month.

Starting from July 1, 400 three-member teams will fan out in the 13 Assembly constituencies for the next two months for household photography so as to include every single eligible voter into the photo electoral list.

Of the total 47,58,258 voters as per the draft photo electoral rolls, just about half of them i.e. 25,55,171 have EPICs constituting to 53.7 per cent. Close to 24,95,864 electors are yet to receive them, he said.

Issuance of the EPIC can be taken up later and would not be much of a problem once the photo electoral rolls are "cleaned out".

"They can also be sent by courier for door delivery," said Mr. Babu.

Necessary directions were also being sought on having photo electoral rolls for voters in Patancheru, Ramachandrapuram, Uppal, Kapra and Qutbullapur since they are all part of the GHMC now, though they are not part of the 13-city Assembly constituencies list.

Mr. Babu blamed "technical hitches" for mistakes that had occurred in the EPICs and draft photo electoral rolls and was confident of overcoming them by the time the final publication of rolls on September 1.

The Chief City Planner B. Purushothama Reddy has been entrusted with the task of delimitation of wards taking into account inclusion of the erstwhile 12 municipalities.

About 150 wards are to be formed and delimitation will be on the basis of geographical boundaries, natural boundaries and population based on the 2001 census with not more than 10 per cent differentiation.

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