The big picture

| | Chennai

Sir — To attribute any motive to the NRC exercise is untenable. Any new programme is bound to face teething troubles. How can we forget the hiccups we faced during the Aadhaar and voter card exercises? Even a grocery store bill has the line ‘Errors and omissions expected’. The NRC exercise is a message to border States that illegal immigration will be under watch. However, there has to be some amount of compassion to those who have been in India for long.