Additional NRC Draft List: Biometric Collection Must During Hearing

GUWAHATI: The biometric collection of people mentioned in the ‘Additional Draft Exclusion List’ of the draft NRC (National Register of Citizens) published on Wednesday will be taken when they will be appearing for the hearings, informed sources in the Home and Political department. This will serve as a database of these 1, 02,462 people.

The NRC authority published the ‘Additional Draft Exclusion List’ ahead of the publication of the final NRC on July 31. The ‘Additional Exclusion List’ to complete draft National Register of Citizens has names of those people whose names had figured in the complete National Register of Citizens draft list published in July last year but were subsequently found ineligible for inclusion in the final National Register of Citizens. This is besides the 40,07,707 names that were already excluded from the complete draft National Register of Citizens published on July 30, 2018.

Meanwhile, the State government is carrying on the process of biometric collections of the 36.2 lakh people who made claims for inclusion in the final National Register of Citizens and also of those against whom objections (on their inclusion in the final NRC) have been raised.

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