SIR may shrink Hyderabad voter list by 40% as 19 lakh flagged

The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may shrink the Hyderabad voter list by around 40%. As per the 'Status report on SIR', 58.89% of forms have been digitised. Out of 47,36,669 voters on the electoral rolls before the beginning of SIR, forms of 27,89,214 voters were digitised, which means SIR may remove 19 lakh voters from list.