The process of verifying the documents of some 36 lakh applicants who were excluded from the published list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would begin on Thursday.
Nearly 40.07 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants were left out of the complete draft of NRC published on July 30 last year.
An official at the NRC Coordinator’s office in Guwahati, declining to be quoted, said a 15-day deadline had been set for some 3,500 examiners engaged to complete the verification of the fresh documents submitted by the 36 lakh people who had reapplied for inclusion in the list. An applicant, whose papers are found valid, would be called to his or her nearest NRC Seva Kendra for hearing and further verification. The NRC authorities want the entire process to be completed by June 15 as the Supreme Court, which had been monitoring the exercise, had directed them to publish the NRC by July 31.
The verification of objection forms has a similar time-frame. About 2.65 lakh objections, almost all of them submitted on the last day (December 31, 2018) of the claims and objections phase, were filed by those who doubt the citizenship of certain people included in the NRC.
Published - February 11, 2019 10:24 pm IST
