Hyderabad, Aug. 22 -- The massive exercise of serving notices to nearly 93 lakh electors flagged during Telangana's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is off to a slow start, with barely a fraction of the notices delivered so far, chief electoral officer (CEO) C Sudharshan Reddy said on Friday, August 21.

Of the roughly 15 lakh notices generated so far for electors flagged with anomalies or classified as "unmapped," only about 650 have actually been served, the CEO said, adding that the pace is expected to pick up over the next two days.

In Hyderabad, service of notices is likely to begin within a couple of days, with the CEO noting that notices for the district are currently being printed in English.

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