Assam recognises 1.9 crore legal citizens in first draft of NRC list


Guwahati, Jan 1 (PTI): The much-awaited first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was today published with the names of 1.9 crore people out of the 3.29 crore total applicants in Assam recognising them as legal citizens of India.

The rest of the names are under various stages of verification, Registrar General of India Sailesh said at a press conference held at midnight where he made the draft public.

"This is a part draft. It contains 1.9 crore persons, who have been verified till now. The rest of the names are under various stages of verification. As soon as the verification is done, we will come out with another draft," he said.

NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela said those people whose names have been excluded in the first list need not worry.

"It is a tedious process to verify the names. So there is a possibility that some names within a single family may not be there in the first draft," said Hajela.

"There is no need to panic as rest of the documents are under verification," he said.

Asked about the possible timeframe for the next draft, the RGI said it will be decided as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court -- under whose monitoring the document is being prepared -- in its next hearing in April.

The entire process will be completed within 2018, Sailesh said.

The application process started in May, 2015 and a total of 6.5 crore documents were received from 68.27 lakh families across Assam.

"The process of accepting complaints will start once the final draft is published as rest of the names are likely to appear in that," Hajela said.

People can check their names in the first draft at NRC sewa kendras across Assam from 8 am on January 1. They can also check for information online and through SMS services.

The RGI informed that the ground work for this mammoth exercise began in December 2013 and 40 hearings have taken place in the Supreme Court over the last three years.

Assam, which faced influx from Bangladesh since the early 20th century, is the only state having an NRC, first prepared in 1951.

The Supreme Court, which is monitoring the entire process, had ordered that the first draft of the NRC be published by December 31 after completing the scrutiny of over two crore claims along with that of around 38 lakh people whose documents were suspect.

  

Top Stories

Comment on this article

  • Vijay Benedict, Mangalore/Mumbai

    Mon, Jan 01 2018

    What a shame that genuine citizens of India are being asked to prove their citizenship due to vote bank politics played by Congress for decades.

    DisAgree Agree [2] Reply Report Abuse

  • Desi Admi, Mangalore

    Mon, Jan 01 2018

    After the final list is out and things get hot in Assam the illegal Bangaldeshis will slip away into West Bengal where Mamta Banerjee will be more than happy to give them fake documents to increase her voter base. The Indian Govt. should do the ground work and prepare the deportation agreement with the Bengladeshi Govt. now, so that once the illegal immigrants are identified they are rounded up and deported right away, else will get time to spread out into other Indian states where there is no such National register. BJP needs to come to power in West Bengal and do the same exercise there as well.

    DisAgree [1] Agree [2] Reply Report Abuse


Leave a Comment

Title: Assam recognises 1.9 crore legal citizens in first draft of NRC list



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.