NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the July 31 deadline for publication of the final Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) will not be altered under any circumstance and asked the state NRC coordinator, the Election Commission and the Assam government to make staff arrangements so that general elections and NRC finalisation could go on simultaneously.A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman requested solicitor general Tushar Mehta to arrange a meeting between state NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela, secretary to the EC and the chief secretary of Assam and finalise within a week a plan of action for seamless deployment of government staff for both election duty and NRC work.Hajela informed the court that of the 40 lakh people left out of the draft NRC, 36.2 lakh had filed applications seeking inclusion of their names in the final list. He said nearly 3.5 lakh applications objecting to names included in the draft NRC were filed by December 31 but the final number of objections stood around 2 lakh after weeding out defective ones.The state coordinator said the applications were digitised and the process for verification of the claims and objections would start from February 1.