A woman delivered a baby while waiting for her turn to submit citizenship papers outside a National Register of Citizens (NRC) seva kendra at South Salmara in Assam.
The woman had visited the centre for a scheduled hearing on Thursday. A group of women helped her deliver the baby in a room at the centre, reports said.
“We have appealed the NRC authorities to re-schedule the hearing date for her family,” the South Salmara unit of All Assam Students’ Union said in a statement.
More than 36 lakh out of the 40.07 lakh people who were left out of the updated NRC published on July 30 last year had reapplied for inclusion in the list. They are being called to the nearest NSK for the revised list that, as per the Supreme Court's deadline, is to be completed by July 31.
There had been reports of shortage of staff at the NSKs because of election duty of government employees, leading to long hours of wait for people seeking to be included in the updated NRC.
