The Department of Municipal Administration and Urban Development has mandated all the 136 urban local bodies that the preparation of final voters list, including women and backward class voters, be completed by January 10.
Director of Municipal Administration T.K. Sreedevi in a communication to all the municipal commissioners concerned has directed them to see to it that the door-to-door verification of the voters is done in all aspects, draft rolls be published, objections and suggestions taken from the citizens and the political parties as well as submission of the final voters lists in the next 19 days. The directions were issued after the government had reviewed the preparatory work being done for the elections to the municipalities across Telangana whenever they are due next year. The voters list, including identifying women and BCs, is to be taken up as per the latest updated voters published on January 1, 2018 as the qualifying date.
Survey to be done
The survey will be taken up in all the ULBs including those covered under court cases for finalising reservations for the office of the chairpersons. The municipal commissioners have been issued instructions on how to go about identifying the BC voters, list of BC communities from the Commissioner of BC Welfare, sorting out the claims/objections ward-wise, appointment of trained verification officers and field verification.