Hyderabad, July 10 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed district collectors in Telangana to ensure 100 per cent digitisation of voter enumeration forms under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-2026 programme by July 24.

The directions were issued by Dr Pawan Kumar Sharma, Senior Officer of the Election Commission of India, during a video conference with district collectors on Friday to review the progress of the SIR exercise.

Dr Sharma noted that only 22 per cent of the enumeration forms had been digitised so far despite half of the scheduled timeline having elapsed. He instructed district administrations to accelerate the process and achieve an average of 8 per cent digitisation every day to meet the deadline.

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