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8,000 O/L Candidates’ NIC applications rejected: Registration Dept CG
View(s):About 8,000 National Identity Card (NIC) applications submitted for next months GCE Ordinary Level candidates cannot be accepted due to shortcomings, said the Commissioner General, Registration of Persons Sarath Kumara.
Among them, 5,000 applications were from students who had not reached the mandatory age of 16 years, to be eligible for an NIC, while about 3,000 applications were incomplete.
Mr Kumara said that students of rejected applications need to send in fresh applications or complete the shortcomings, and submit them before November 30, in order to receive their NICs.
he said the Department will consider these as urgent and make all arrangements to issue the NICs.
He said that a valid NIC is required to sit the exam.
Mr Kumara said that school principals should take more interest in the matter.
He said that, if there were O/L candidates in Koslanda, affected by last week’s landslide, they will make special arrangements to issue them with new NICs. (DW)