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Over 9.3 lakh persons in Assam whose biometrics were frozen when the process to update the National Register of Citizens was underway are now set to receive their Aadhaar cards after a five-year wait.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Wednesday that the Centre has directed the Unique Identification Authority of India to unfreeze their biometrics, allowing for Aadhaar numbers to be issued to them.
The Unique Identification Authority of India had frozen the biometrics of 9,35,682 people who had applied for Aadhaar numbers from February 2019 to August 2019, ahead of the publication of the National Register of Citizens.
“ We were under the impression that the UIDAI had frozen the biometrics of about 27 lakh people but they told us the figure was 9,35,682,
Chief Minister,
Blocked during NRC process, 9.35 lakh people in Assam to get Aadhaar
“ There was no pattern to this Aadhaar-blocking issue. The affected people belong to all ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups. We were not able to correlate Aadhaar and NRC except that some of the…
Chief Minister,
Blocked during NRC process, 9.35 lakh people in Assam to get Aadhaar
“ The process of issuing Aadhaar cards to the 9.35 lakh people will start in 15-20 days,
Chief Minister,
Blocked during NRC process, 9.35 lakh people in Assam to get Aadhaar