Guwahati: Assam government released an additional exclusion list consisting of names of 1,02,462 persons to the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Wednesday. The names of these people were included in the draft citizen’s list published last year but later found ineligible.
The draft NRC was published on July 30, 2018, and included the names of 2.9 crore people out of the total applications of 3.29 crore. Following its publication, a massive controversy over the exclusion of 40 lakh people from the draft NRC.
As per a statement issued by the state coordinator of NRC, “the list has been published as per provisions of Clause 5 of the Schedule of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules 2003.”
The NRC in Assam is being updated under the monitoring of the Supreme Court and the final list is scheduled to be released on July 31.
Bureau Report
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