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Guwahati, Sep 2 : More than 80 per cent  resident of Pub Malaybari – a revenue village in Assam's Kamrup (Metro) district, have now spent sleepless night after their names were missing in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) that published on August 31 by leaving out more than 19 lakh people across the state.

Around 2000 people are living in the village under Sonapur revenue circle – around 75 km from Guwahati, capital city of Assam and they had applied for inclusion their names in the NRC four years back.

But, more than 80 per cent people of the village dominated by Hindu Bengali people were not listed in the final NRC list.

Locals said that, only 400-500 people names were figured in the final list.

25-year-old Biswajit Sarkar and his family members were also not listed in the final NRC.

Biswajit said that, out of 2000 people of the village, only 400-500 people name were appeared.

"More than 2000 people of our village had applied for inclusion their names in the NRC. But only 400-500 people names were listed. We had submitted Border security and refugee card etc documents,"  Biswajit said.

"Our village name is Pub Malaybari. All residents of ward no 5, 4 and 7 were not figured in the final NRC. Our documents were not verified," Shyamal Sarkar said.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)