Anantapur says it topped Andhra’s SIR-2026 door-to-door voter push

Anantapur’s Special Intensive Revision exercise for SIR-2026 was reviewed at the Collectorate on Monday, 31 August 2026, with representatives of recognised parties in the room. District Electoral Roll Observer G.C. Kishore Kumar, who also serves as managing director of the Andhra Pradesh Mission for Clean Krishna-Godavari Canals, chaired the meeting with Collector and District Election Officer O. Anand.

The administrative map of the drive is precise. The district has eight Assembly constituencies, 46 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers and 93 Booth Level Officers. Enumeration forms, officials said, had been distributed to 100 percent of 20,38,523 voters. Of those, 87.83 percent — 17,90,436 forms — had already been digitised. Another 2,48,087 forms sat in the uncollectable basket for reasons that include absence, permanent migration, death and duplicates. Those names, Kishore Kumar’s review made clear, would be removed from the draft roll only after legal process, notices and verification — not by a clerical sweep.

Kishore Kumar told the meeting that Anantapur had topped the state for complete form distribution and for a 100 percent BLO door-to-door survey. Extra AEROs had been deployed as per Election Commission of India guidelines. Draft roll publication, notice service and objection inquiries were described as the next sequential steps, alongside rationalisation of polling stations. DRO A. Malola, EROs Premanth Kumar and Vasantha Babu, special deputy collectors and party representatives were present.

Voter-roll revision is where democracy’s plumbing meets household reality. A 100 percent distribution claim is an operational boast; an 87.83 percent digitisation rate is a progress meter; a 2.48 lakh uncollectable pile is a rights warning. Deaths and duplicates should leave the roll, but only after the law’s notice window. Migrants and temporarily absent families need a fair chance to respond before a draft deletion becomes permanent.

For Andhra Pradesh’s wider SIR-2026 calendar, Anantapur’s review matters because the observer publicly ranked the district first on distribution completeness and full BLO coverage. Party representatives heard those numbers in the same room as the Collector, which reduces the chance that the claim lives only in a press handout. A published note that carried the meeting into 1 September early hours still describes Monday’s review, so the event date remains 31 August.

This cutting does not invent Form B dates, does not declare any Assembly seat’s final electorate, and does not turn an observer’s topping claim into an Election Commission statewide certificate beyond what the meeting recorded. It reports the Anantapur numbers, the legal caution around uncollectable forms, and the next-step promise of draft rolls, notices and objection hearings.