A voter looks at a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) help desk banner at a GHMC office in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: File Photo Language is set to emerge as a major sticking point in the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, as election authorities prepare for the massive nationwide exercise to clean up and update voter lists from the ground up. As per Election Commission of India directives, the enumeration forms to be distributed from June 25 will be printed in Telugu across Telangana, understandably to facilitate easy comprehension. However, the one-language approach may pose difficulties in Hyderabad, one of India’s most linguistically diverse urban centres. In Hyderabad district, which forms the core of the GHMC area, Telugu speakers account for only about 46% of the population, according to Census 2011 data. Urdu speakers make up nearly 43% while sizeable sections of residents speak Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and several other languages as their mother tongue. With the exponential growth of Information Technology and …