Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 26 -- Thiruvananthapuram District Collector Anu Kumari on Wednesday said that participation from student groups would be purely voluntary and that no one would be compelled to join the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Kerala.

Reacting to Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty's instructions to education department officials to ensure that students' learning is not disrupted following official letters from Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) requesting the deployment of student volunteers for the SIR of the electoral roll, Thiruvananthapuram District Collector said that they had taken note of it and students who have exams can avoid it.

She further said that the Education Minister had inform...