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Guwahati : After published the first part draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) by including names of 1.90 crore people out of the total 3.29 crore applicants of Assam recognising them as legal citizens of India, the NRC state coordinator office is now preparing to publish the final draft of NRC.
The NRC authorities are all set to publish the final draft of NRC.
Around 1.5 lakh people whose names figured in the first draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam will not be included in the final draft, which will be published by July 30, a new deadline set by the Supreme Court.
For publishing the final draft of NRC, the earlier schedule was June 30, but the Supreme Court on July 2 had extended the deadline for publishing the final draft of NRC to July 30.
In the last hearing date, NRC State coordinator Prateek Hajela informed the Supreme Court that, during the course of the Family Tree investigation, 65,694 cases which were earlier found to be matched at office level were discovered to be false. Due opportunity has been given to such persons
during the Family Tree hearing and as such their names are proposed for exclusion from Complete Draft NRC as per the provisions of Clause 4(3), 4(5) & 4(6) of the Citizenship Rules, 2003.
“Similarly, 48,456 cases of married women who have submitted Panchayat certificates as a linkage document but were included in the Part Draft based on their office verification have not been found admissible in the reverification process of hearing conducted for Gaon Panchayat Secretary
Certificate verification as mandated by the Hob’ble Court. These married women were also issued notices and they appeared subsequent to their inclusion in the Part Draft for special verification conducted in respect
of Gaon Panchayat Secretary Certificates. As such, 1.15 lakh persons already included in Part Draft have not been found admissible for inclusion
during the verification process in the Complete Draft though were part of the Part Draft. In addition to these persons, the quality control exercise has also revealed errors in respect of 19,783 persons who were included in the Part Draft but are not eligible,” the NRC state coordinator informed the Supreme Court.
“As such about 1.5 lakh persons will be excluded from Complete Draft NRC although they were included in the Part Draft and they will be individually informed about the decision and can file claim for inclusion at the
claim/objection stage. Those applicants will be informed additionally
through a Letter of Information (LOI). The LOI will have to be served to
the rejected applicants within 7 days from publication of Complete Draft. The LOI will explicitly state that the applicant has opportunity to file Claim for inclusion. The LOI will also inform about the time schedule and place of submission of the Claim. The Hon’ble Court may like to grant approval to exclude such 1.5 lakh persons from Complete Draft NRC though their names appeared in Part Draft,” Hajela submitted to the apex court.
The apex court has approved the proposals submitted by the NRC state coordinator.
But many people residing in Assam feared that, will their names include in the final draft.
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief and two times Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal and his MP brother Sirajuddin Ajmal, MLA son Abdur Rahim Ajmal’s names were missing in the first draft of NRC published on December 31 last year.
Not only Ajmal’s family members, BJP MLA Shiladitya Dev, Ashwini Rai Sarkar, Congress MLA Nurul Huda and few other Assam MLAs name were also missing in the first draft.
Over 70 percent people name of lower Assam’s Barpeta, Dhubri, Goalpara, South Salmara, Bongaigaon, Hailakandi, Cachar, Karimganj district and some parts of Nagaon, Morigaon, Hojai, Darrang district were excluded from the first draft of NRC.
On the other hand, maximum people name of upper Assam and northern Assam district were included in the first draft.
The application process for the NRC updation was started in May 2015 and around 6.5 crore documents were received from 68.33 lakh families across
the state.
After publishing the first draft, the verification process of the remaining applicants documents have been almost completed in all 2500 NRC Seva Kendra (NSKs) in the state.
Ahead of the final draft publication, adequate security has been beefed up across the state to prevent any untoward situation.
Assam police has monitoring the security scenario of the state and top Assam cops have visited across the state and holding meetings with the district administration, police officials.
Assam government has sought additional companies of central armed forces to deploy in the vulnerable areas and to maintain law and order.
The NRC updation process is continuing in Assam under the Supreme Court monitoring to identify the illegal foreigners residing in the state.
According to the Supreme Court, all Indian Citizens including their children and descendants who have moved to Assam post March 24 1971 would be eligible for inclusion in the updated NRC on adducing satisfactory proof of residence in any part of the country (outside Assam) as on March 24, 1971.
Large scale of illegal migration from the Bangladesh into Assam has been alerting to the demographic complexion of the state.
Unabated influx from the Bangladesh also threat both to the identity of the indigenous people of Assam and the national security.
It adversely affects the social, economic and political environment in Assam.
Illegal migration from the East Pakistan/Bangladesh is continued since past couple of decades.
The flow of immigrants started during the rule of British and it continued till.
The NRC updation process is going on in Assam to detect illegal foreigners residing in Assam.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
