Kerala: Election Commission to hold meeting with political parties on Sept 20 as state gears for SIR of voter lists

As the Election Commission of India prepares for a Biharlike Special Intensive Revision SIR of the voter list across the country Kerala Chief Election Officer CEO Rathan U Kelkar said that a meeting is scheduled with the state political parties on September 20The Kerala CEO told ANI on Friday that they will hold a meeting with political parties to brief them regarding the SIR exerciseSo we have taken all the steps to ensure that we are ready and we are looking forward to the schedule And as part of this we are also having a meeting with the political parties on the 20th of this month where we will explain the steps and processes involved he saidHe added that the SIR exercise in the state will be announced soon and the State Election Commission has digitised the records and uploaded them in a searchable format on their websiteHe said In the last meeting of the Election Commission of India we had a meeting on the preparedness of SIR across the country in all the states From Kerala we had presented our preparedness and we expect that the SIR will be announced any time soon And as part of this SIR we had already undertaken some preparedness activities in Kerala We had our SIR which was done in the year 2002So we have digitised all the records We have put it in a searchable format on our website We have trained our election machinery We have ensured that all the requirements for undertaking an SIR in Kerala are already prepared he addedLauding 100 per cent digital literacy in the state CEO Kelkar said that the exercise will be easy and will be conducted with the support of the stakeholders including the public the media and the political partiesHe said As part of document provisioning Kerala is already digitising 100 per cent of its documents 100 per cent of digital literacy is also there in Kerala Fortunately we have 100 per cent 4G coverage We have a very informed society we have good support from the people the media and the political parties We feel it will be a very good coordinated effort from all the stakeholders to ensure that this entire exercise is done in a very easy and a very useful wayEarlier on Wednesday the ECI held a conference of Chief Electoral Officers CEOs in the nationla capital of all States and Union Territories and assessed the preparedness for the nationwide Special Intensive Revision SIR of the electoral rollsThis was the third Conference of Chief Electoral Officers this year A presentation on the strategies constraints and best practices adopted was made by the CEO of Bihar so that the CEOs of the rest of the country learn from their experiences said EC in a press noteThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever