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Registrar General of India (RGI) while briefing the media along with Union Home Secretary (N-E) Satyendra Garg and NRC state coordinator Prateek Hajela said those whose names did not appear in the complete draft NRC need not worry as they would be given ample opportunity to submit claims and objections.
“I will like to make it clear that it is a complete draft NRC and not the final NRC. There will be plenty or scope for filing claims and objections and process for it will begin on August 30. No genuine Indian citizens who have been left out should worry at all. The NRC state coordinator will launch an intensive information campaign in this regard to help people who lack sufficient knowledge to file their claims and objectives. There will be specific modality to help these people,” Sailesh said.
Union Home Secretary (N-E), Satyendra Garg said, “The published document should be treated as a draft document, not the final NRC. The process has started the draft stage today. I will like to reiterate the Centre’s stand that no person whose name has not figured in the NRC draft could be referred to Foreigners’ Tribunals or to detention camps.”
Garg said the Centre would closely monitor the law and order situation in the state in the aftermath of the publication of the complete draft of the updated NRC and any quarter trying to create trouble over the draft NRC issue would be dealt with sternly as per the law of the land.
The state coordinator of the NRC, Prateek Hajela, said those people whose names were there in the first draft of NRC published in December 31, 2017, but had failed to make it to the final draft of the NRC would get opportunity to file claims and objection during August 7 to September 28. He said the reasons for rejection of any person from the final draft would not be made public and would be intimated to the persons concerned personally.
The state coordinator and the RGI, however, did not specify any date for publication of the final NRC as it would depend on the time to be taken to dispose of claims and objections.
The NRC updating process was initiated way back in December 2013 and process of receiving applications started in 2015. Over 55,000 government officials besides technical staff were involved in the process of updating of NRC of 1951 in Assam with March 24, 1971 as the cut-off date under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court.
The NRC in Assam is being updated in view of the burning problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh so that it becomes easier to differentiate between genuine Indian citizens and illegal migrants who had sneaked into the state after March 24, 1971 which is the cut-off date mentioned in Assam Cord for detection of illegal migrants.
The NRC authority has facilitated people to check their names in the final draft NRC in at least three websites, through SMS and phone.
Meanwhile, All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) who has been spearhead of the tirade against illegal migrants, expressed happiness and satisfaction over publication of the final draft NRC terming it a historic step towards ensuring protection of interests of indigenous people in the state.
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