Review meeting with CRCRs held in Guwahati ahead of Additional Draft NRC publication

The NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela had reviewed the ongoing process of the NRC with the Circle Registrars of Citizen Registration (CRCRs) across the state.

The review meeting was organised by the State Project Management Unit, NRC.

Before the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), the NRC authorities will publish an additional draft of NRC on June 15 next.

The Supreme Court has directed the State Coordinator, NRC of Assam and the Union Home ministry to publish the final updated NRC by July 31 this year.

The office of the State Coordinator, NRC said in a letter that, the Supreme Court has approved to publish the proposed additional draft under Clause 5 of the Schedule of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 on June 15.

The additional draft list will contain the names of applicants who were included in the draft published on July 30, 2018 but were later found to be ineligible for inclusion in the citizens’ register during suo motu verification done by the NRC authorities and the the suo motu verification was done as per Section 4 (3) of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.

According to the office of the State Coordinator, NRC, the person who found ineligible for inclusion in the NRC during the suo motu verification will be informed through a notice and it will be sent to the residence of the person.

They will be given an opportunity to file claims for inclusion of their names in the updated NRC and they will have to file their claims by June 30

The NRC updating process is going on in Assam under monitoring of the Supreme Court to detect the illegal foreigners residing in the state.

The complete draft of NRC, containing names of 28,983,677 out of 32,991,384 applicants, was published on July 30 last year.

Around 40.07 lakh people were left out from the complete draft of NRC and nearly 36 lakh people have filed their claims for inclusion their names in the final NRC.

On the other hand, around 2 lakh objections were also filed against the inclusion of ineligible persons in the complete draft of NRC.

The hearing of claims and objections are underway across the state.

On the other hand, NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela said that the ongoing hearing of the NRC updation process will not be held on June 5 during the Eid festival.

“Our hearing notices were issued and scheduling works were done earlier. We have not scheduled any hearing on June 5 on the occasion of Eid. We will also inform it through our social media handles,” Hajela said.

 

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)