Hyderabad, Aug. 30 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to extend the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state by four weeks, in the wake of concern over possible deletion of a large number of voters during the verification. In a letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the chief minister said the SIR exercise had reached a critical stage, with 7.3 million entries, or 21.7% of the state's 33.8 million electors, being classified under absent, shifted, dead and duplicate (ASDD) categories. Of these, 4.5 million entries were classified as "permanently shifted," he said. He also pointed out that, of the 26.5 million enumeration forms digitised so far, 6.05 million had been flagged for anomalies and another 3.2 million for lack of a link to the earlier electoral roll. "The two categories were distinct and together accounted for 92.86 lakh (9.28 million) electors who would have to respond to notices," he said. Revanth Reddy said the verification process had structural shortcomings, including failure to distinguish between temporary absence and permanent relocation, inadequate assistance to genuine voters who had shifted residence, and exclusion of "shifted" voters from the statutory notice mechanism. The chief minister said the verification burden was disproportionately high in Hyderabad, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts, which together account for 58.6% of ASDD entries and 41.9% of verification notices....