The NRC authorities have completed verification of 97.34 per cent of the 68.08 lakh application forms received. A total of 5.88 crore supporting documents were received along with the applications and of them 4.45 crore documents have been verified and 2.51 lakh documents were sent to other states for verification. “With a view to prevent illegal influx through the porous border once and for all, sealing IndiaBangladesh border is high on our priority list. We will fortify the barbedwire fence along the border. The department of border areas development will be renamed border protection and development department to give more teeth to it,” the chief minister said.
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Source:Compiled from news reports and are provisional.