GUWAHATI: Assam Public Works (APW), the organization on whose petition the Supreme Court undertook the supervision of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) update exercise, on Wednesday appealed for the establishment of a panel to monitor the sample re-verification of included names.The Supreme Court had on August 28 proposed re-verification of a sample 10% of those who have made it to the NRC and asked NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela to examine its feasibility. The court had proposed that the re-verification could be carried by a team of NRC Seva Kendra personnel from a neighbouring district. However, it has not given any order to this effect so far.The APW submitted an affidavit seeking fresh verification in 22 districts where the rate of inclusion is "high"."It is suggested that the said committee may be given power to address grievances of the persons for a defect-free NRC and to report the issues to this Hon'ble Court directly without any intervention of either Registrar General of India or State Coordinator, NRC," the organization stated in its affidavit on Wednesday.The organization suggested the names of 11 luminaries from the state for the monitoring committee - former chief election commissioner Hari Shankar Brahma, former Gauhati high court judge Biplob Sarma, former Asam Sahitya Sabha president Kanak Sen Deka, retired bureaucrat AK Absar Ali Hazarika, ex-DGP of Assam Police GM Srivasatva, Brigadier (retd) Ranjit Borthakur, member of the Population Policy Control of Government of Assam Ilias Ali, IITian and senior citizen Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, and senior advocates Upamanyu Hazarika and Kamal Narayan Choudhury.

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