Guwahati, August 2
The Assam Government has claimed that the percentage of people excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) was lower in districts bordering Bangladesh and having a sizeable Muslim population than those where Hindus were in the majority.
The government placed a list in the state Assembly on Thursday which contained district-wise figures of people left out of the 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 a great magnitude”.
Assam Accord Implementation and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary laid the district-wise list of inclusion, rejection and non-inclusion of applicants’ names in the NRC. “It is a matter of concern that the percentage of names excluded from the draft NRC is lower in the border (Indo-Bangla) districts compared to the rest of the state,” he said.
The NRC coordinator came under fire from ruling BJP members who expressed doubt whether a correct NRC will ever be published. They claimed that the rate of exclusion of NRC applicants in the districts bordering Bangladesh was less than the state average — 12.15 per cent. This is a proof that a section of people residing in border districts of Assam has wrongly been included in the NRC, they said. — PTI
Citizenship crisis
Assam, which had faced influx of people from Bangladesh since the early 20th century, is the only state having an NRC, which was first prepared in 1951.
3,29,91,385 number of applicants
40,07,717 names not included
SC’s rejection
The first NRC draft was published on December 31, 2017, and the final draft on July 30 last year. The SC had extended the deadline for the final NRC publication to August 31. The governments had sought 20% sample re-verification to find out errors in NRC, but pleas were rejected.
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