Over 500,000 Overseas Indian Cards issued Vayalar Ravi
New Delhi, April 22: Over 500,000 Overseas Indian Cards (OICs) have so
far been issued while 9,000 applications are pending, Minister of
Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said Thursday.
"We have so far issued 576,000 OIC cards. Nine thousand applications are
pending because the forms are incomplete. We have asked the applicants
to correct these and we will then issue the cards," the minister said
during question hour in the Rajya Sabha.
Responding to a supplementary from Tarlochan Singh
(Independent), he said NRIs living in Pakistan and Bangladesh were not
eligible for these cards.
"This is an old decision," Ravi added.
Source:- Zee News
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