The Kerala government has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to defer the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls of the State.

The State said the conduct of the “cumbersome” SIR process from November 4 to December 4 would coincide with the elections to the local bodies in Kerala. The simultaneous conduct of both exercises would not only strain human resources but also create an “administrative impasse” with no personnel left to take care of the day-to-day functioning of the government.

The government said the simultaneous conduct of the SIR and the LSGIs would be an “near impossibility”.

“SIR is a huge exercise requiring deployment of 1,76,000 personnel from government and quasi-governmental service

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