The final list of Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) has been released today. More than 19 lakh people have left out of the NRC. The Assam government has, however, assured that adequate support and aid will be provided to people who are excluded from the final NRC list
As the final NRC was published on Saturday, political and non-political organisations in unison condemned the document that excluded 1.9 million people.
"I am not happy with the way the NRC has been published with names of genuine Indian citizens left out and foreigners included", the three-time former chief minister told reporters here.
Assam NRC Final List 2019: Prateek Hajela, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, had his share of bouquets and brickbats while he led a team of 52,000 officials that sifted through over six crore documents of 3.3 crore applicants, in one of the most complex exercises to validate the Indian citizenship of the residents of Assam.
NRC Assam: Amnesty International, the global Human Rights watchdog has voiced concern over final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC). The final list , that was published on Saturday (August 31), has excluded 10.07 lakh people. Amnesty International has made an appeal to the Assam Government. It has asked the state government to ensure that the Foreigners Tribunals functions with utmost transparency.
Security was heightened in Mizoram and police stations and border outposts along the 123 km Mizoram-Assam border were alerted on Saturday in view of the publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in neighbouring Assam, Mizoram Inspector General of Police (Headquarters) John Neihlaia said.
The APW, as the primary petitioner, had submitted five memoranda in the Supreme Court requesting re-verification of the draft NRC but they were rejected, he said. "The 27 per cent re-verification done by him (NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela) is a mystery. No one knows whether or not it was 100 per cent flawless," Sharma said. He also expressed "strong doubt" on the software used as names of many doubtful voters had entered the draft NRC.
The AASU is a signatory to the Assam Accord, a 1985 document that provided for "detection, deletion and deportation" of illegal foreigners from Assam.
Some 19,06,677 people have been excluded from the final list, which names 3,11,21,004 people as Indian citizens.
The National Register of Citizen or NRC final citizens' list in Assam will be published online at http://www.nrcassam.nic.in. and assam.mygov.in on Saturday. How and where to check the name on National Register of Citizens
It was six years ago that a mammoth exercise was started to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) of 1951 by identifying illegal foreigners living in Assam and since then lakhs of people have been living an anxiety.
The government set March 25, 1971, as the cutoff date to consider the India citizenship, which implies that those who came before the midnight of March 24, 1971 are Indian citizens, while those who came after that have to be detected and deported.
People who may be excluded from the final NRC can approach any one of these tribunals for inclusion of their names, the official said. The Centre has already extended the time period for appeal in a foreigners tribunal from 60 days to 120 days. The home ministry had planned to set up a total of 1,000 foreigners tribunal in phases.
The Union government is also reviewing the state's preparedness to handle the law and order issue that might arise as reaction from those left out of the NRC.
At present, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is being updated in Assam to identify Indians residing in the state and weed out illegal immigrants. Names of persons declared foreigners by FTs or termed D-voters will not be included in the final NRC list.
The government placed a list in the state assembly on Thursday which contained district-wise figures of people left out of the hugely contentious NRC, which is being updated under the supervision of the Supreme Court. The development came despite an apex court directive to the state coordinator of NRC to submit before it the details in a sealed cover as the matter was "a human problem with great magnitude".
In a notification, the Registrar General of India said the decision was taken as the exercise to enumerate citizens in the NRC, a list of Assam's residents, could not be completed within the specified date of July 31.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the deadline for publication of final National Register of Citizens(NRC) for Assam from July 31 to August 31. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman, however, declined the plea of the Centre and Assam government to conduct sample re-verification.
Referring to media reports published on July 21 and 22 about inclusion of a Rohingya migrant in the draft NRC, Hajela in a press communiqué said, "These media reports have referred to one person named Alam Hussain Mazumdar who has been arrested in Cachar recently on various charges and has been mentioned as an illegal Rohingya migrant.
The Home Ministry has laid down the modalities for Foreigners' Tribunals in Assam to deciding appeals made by people not satisfied with the outcome of claims and objections filed against the NRC.
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