Hyderabad: The state government said on Wednesday, August 12, that it would seek legal opinion on the Election Commission’s (ECI) decision not to consider the newly introduced Telangana Family Register Certificate (FRC) as a legal document for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) verification. The Commission, in its clarification, said that it treated the FRC as equivalent to a ration card, as it draws its information from the latter. “The ration card does not form part of one of the designated documents for screening eligibility,” reads the ECI letter. ‘Ration cards are also government-issued documents’Questioning this position, Shabbir Ali said ration cards were documents issued by the government after a prescribed process and verification. Govt introduced FRC through MeeSevaIn July, the state government constituted a statewide electronic Telangana Family Register and introduced a facility for the issuance of a Family Register Certificate through the MeeSeva platform.