In Depth - National Register of Citizens

The National Register of Citizens, or NRC, is the list of Indian citizens in Assam. It was prepared in 1951, following the census of 1951.

The list is being updated for the first time since 1951 to identify illegal migration into Assam.

The NRC is being updated under the monitoring of the Supreme Court and the final list is scheduled to be released on July 31.

Ahead of the deadline, more than one lakh people have been excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens in Assam after they were found ineligible.

State coordinator of NRC said they were declared ineligible during the process of verification carried out by the Local Registrars of Citizens Registration.

In last year’s draft published on July 30th, 2.89 crore of the 3.29 crore applicants were included, leaving out over 40 lakh persons.

Today in IN DEPTH we try and understand in detail the process of update of NRC, the reasons why over a lakh more people have been left out of Assam NRC additional draft exclusion list, and what happens to them now?

Anchor - Teena Jha

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