Hyderabad, July 2 -- Two civil society organisations have written to Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy seeking urgent measures to ensure the timely issuance of permanent residency, caste and family member certificates in the wake of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that began in the state on June 25.

In a joint representation, the Association for Socio-Economic Empowerment of the Marginalised (ASEEM) and the Adalah Access to Justice Network told the Chief Minister that the limited timeframe for the SIR exercise had made it necessary for the state to intervene immediately to ease documentation-related hardships faced by vulnerable sections.

The organisations said their field-level interactions had shown that...