Hyderabad: With gram panchayat elections on the horizon, Telangana’s Panchayat Raj Department has kicked off a full-scale update of voter rolls, acting on fresh orders from the State Election Commission.
The move comes as the number of panchayats and wards across the state continues to grow, prompting officials to scrap the old records and build new voter lists from the ground up—this time at the ward level for every village. Panchayat secretaries have been handed the responsibility of collecting and entering the updated data, taking over from the earlier system where entries were uploaded through MPDO logins on the T-Poll software.
In fact, the department has already wiped out the old voter rolls from the T-Poll database. Going forward, secretaries will upload the revised rolls using their individual logins. After that, it’s up to the MPDOs to vet the information before passing it on to the district panchayat officer for a final check and approval.
This overhaul also ties into ongoing discussions about carving out new wards and panchayats. Any such changes would shift the electoral map, making a thorough re-registration of voters not just timely—but necessary. Meanwhile, the T-Poll system itself is being tweaked to handle the new workflow more smoothly.
