SIR a challenge at reconstruction sites of TNUHDB tenements

Officials struggle to locate families who shifted out temporarily, 75% of forms not yet distributed in at least 2 places

- SINDUJA JANE & PRAVEENA SA

THE Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work at the sites where old Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development's (TNUHDB) apartments have been taken up for reconstruction is proving to be a huge challenge, as the residents of these tenements have temporarily relocated and hundreds of enumeration forms are yet to be distributed as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) do not have their current addresses.

Even in cases where BLOs managed to distribute the forms, a large percentage of them are yet to be returned.

With only eight days remaining for the enumeration phase and the Greater Chennai Corporation winding up the dedicated help desks it had set up in every polling booth, by Tuesday, officials said the risk of a large number of these families getting excluded from the draft rolls is high.

The percentage of families yet to be covered in the enumeration phase ranged between 4070% in the three sites. When TNIE checked in-person, the actual scale of potential exclu

sion could be significantly higher as TNUHDB officials stated that 35 reconstruction projects were presently under way in and around Chennai.