40 lakh left out of final draft of NCR in Assam, no threat of deportation
New Delhi: Assam has released the final draft
of National Register of Citizens or NCR in the state on Monday. 2,89,83,
677 (two crore eighty nine lakhs, eighty three thousand six hundred and
seventy seven) people have been found eligible among 3.29 crore total
applicants.
Those who have been left out can apply for claims and objections, said State NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela.
Officials
also requested people not to panic if their names did not appear on the
list as "all genuine applicants would get ample time for claims and
objections".
Officials asserted that this is only a draft, and no one would be deported and punished based on it.
"Based on this draft no reference case will be sent to the foreigner tribunal or put in a detention Centre," said Satyendra Garg, home ministry officer in-charge of the northeast.
Nearly 40 lakh citizens have been left out in the draft list, said Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary of Northeast Affairs of Ministry of Home Affairs.
Garg said that the citizens who have been left out will be given "opportunity" to prove their citizenship claims.
Prateek Hajela said, "It's a historic day in the country and Assam towards fulfillment of a major milestone of publishing draft under monitoring of Supreme Court. The exercise of the NRC in its scale size is unprecedented."
The NCR has been updated for the first time since 1951 to account for illegal migration into Assam from Bangladesh.
Security has been strengthened and the Centre has sent extra troops to maintain order in the state.
The updated NRC list considers those who can prove they were living in Assam on or before March 21, 1971.
The list has been updated to include the names of descendants of those whose names were in the 1951 list, or those who were in Assam's electoral rolls till March 24, 1971.
The descendants of those who can prove citizenship till March 24, 1971, will also be considered Indian citizens. So will those who came between January 1, 1966 and March 25, 1971, and registered themselves with the Foreigners Registration Regional Officer.
Some 1.9 crore were cleared in the first draft released on December 30.
Those who have been left out can apply for claims and objections, said State NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela.
Officials asserted that this is only a draft, and no one would be deported and punished based on it.
"Based on this draft no reference case will be sent to the foreigner tribunal or put in a detention Centre," said Satyendra Garg, home ministry officer in-charge of the northeast.
Nearly 40 lakh citizens have been left out in the draft list, said Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary of Northeast Affairs of Ministry of Home Affairs.
Garg said that the citizens who have been left out will be given "opportunity" to prove their citizenship claims.
Prateek Hajela said, "It's a historic day in the country and Assam towards fulfillment of a major milestone of publishing draft under monitoring of Supreme Court. The exercise of the NRC in its scale size is unprecedented."
The NCR has been updated for the first time since 1951 to account for illegal migration into Assam from Bangladesh.
Security has been strengthened and the Centre has sent extra troops to maintain order in the state.
The updated NRC list considers those who can prove they were living in Assam on or before March 21, 1971.
The list has been updated to include the names of descendants of those whose names were in the 1951 list, or those who were in Assam's electoral rolls till March 24, 1971.
The descendants of those who can prove citizenship till March 24, 1971, will also be considered Indian citizens. So will those who came between January 1, 1966 and March 25, 1971, and registered themselves with the Foreigners Registration Regional Officer.
Some 1.9 crore were cleared in the first draft released on December 30.
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