Telangana: 1.4 lakh techies to be axed from voters' list

Hyderabad: Nearly 1.4 lakh techies and migrated workers along with their family members will be deleted from the Serilingampally voters’ list as they have shifted from their current addresses. V. Mamatha, deputy commissioner of Serilingam-pally circle, said that the GHMC took up a comprehensive door-to-door survey. “We found many voters given incorrect details. We also identified 1.4 lakh voters to be removed. Majo-    rity of voters in the removal list are techies and migrated workers,” she said.

She added, “We are not removing the door-lock cases. As per the rules, our staff have to visit them three times in the next few days.” Officials from all the three circles said that only 2 per cent of the verification process is left for the new applications. After removing 1.4 lakh voters from the list of over 6.15 lakh voters, the entire Serilingampally Assembly segment will have about 4.75 lakh voters and officials are expecting about 41,123 additions.