The Calcutta Municipal Corporation on Saturday discussed the rush among people to secure various papers and concluded with the mayor’s assertion that the NRC and the NPR will not be allowed in the city.

Mayor Firhad Hakim said he had been signing daily close to 500 documents related to obtaining Aadhaar and other papers that can be used as proof of identity and residence.

The corporation’s council house discussed the matter after which mayor Firhad Hakim announced: “I can assure everyone there will be no NRC (National Register of Citizens) or NPR (National Population Register) in this state. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has already said that and we are going to follow her.”

He said he sat in Borough XV office. “I sign close to 500 documents every day because people are scared and they want identity proofs at the earliest. They want to have Aadhaar cards.”

The mayor said such queues were there in each of the 16 boroughs of the corporation.

A corporation official later said the state government had issued a written order two months ago, directing officials to keep the NPR on hold in the state. “The current format for the National Population Register has questions like name of parents and their place of birth. The state government is opposed to this.”

Arup Chakraborty, councillor of Ward 110, which covers places like Garia and Patuli, said there were many refugee colonies in the ward.

“These people had to leave behind everything and come here during Partition. They are again afraid of losing the ground beneath their feet,” Chakraborty said.

A corporation official said the civic body had limited the number of birth and death certificates being issued daily to 100. “We issue 50 of each in a day. Every morning there is a long queue outside the department issuing the certificates.”

The sudden spurt in the demand for certificates forced the CMC to limit the number, the official said.