November 05, 2024 19:26 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy booked for threatening cop probing into mining case | Supreme Court upholds validity of Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Act | Not all private properties are community resources that govt can take over: Supreme Court | Pakistan's Lahore has become world's most polluted city with an AQI of 1900 on Sunday | Indian Army 'successfully completes' patrolling to a key point in Ladakh's Depsang region
Assam NRC : Process of filing claims and objections to start tomorrow

Assam NRC : Process of filing claims and objections to start tomorrow

| @indiablooms | 24 Sep 2018, 07:06 am

Guwahati, Sept 24(IBNS) : The process of filing  claims and objections for 40 lakh people, who were left out in the complete draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, will start on September 25.

The process, taking place following a Supreme Court order, will continue for 60 days.

The complete NRC draft  was published on July 30 by including the names of 2.89 crore people out of 3.29 crore applicants in Assam.

The NRC updating process is going on to find out illegal foreigners residing in Assam.

Around 2500 NRC Seva Kendras in the state are now ready to receive claims and objections from the people whose names were excluded from the  complete draft. More than  20,000 NRC employees are  engaged in the process.

The apex court has decided to drop five documents for preparing the modalities of the Standard Operating Procedure for dealing with claims and objections.

The five documents are - the 1951 NRC, pre-1971 voters’ lists, citizenship certificate, refugee registration certificate and ration cards.

The claims can be filed based on ten documents and these are - Land documents like Registered Sale Deed, Records of land rights up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Permanent Residential Certificate issued from outside the State up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Passport issued by the Government of India up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Life Insurance Corporation of India Insurance Policy (LICI) of relevant period up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Any licence/certificate issued by any government authority of relevant period i.e. up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Document showing service/employment under Government/Public Sector undertaking up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Bank/Post Office Accounts of relevant period i.e. up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Birth certificates issued by the competent authority up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Educational certificate issued by Board/Universities up to March 24, 1971 (midnight), Records/processes pertaining to court up to March 24, 1971 (midnight) provided they are parts of a processing in a judicial or revenue court.

Various political parties and organisations in the state are not satisfied with the SC directive to drop the documents, which are among the listed 15 documents.

The SC will hear the issue on October 23 till whichthe claims can be filed based on  10 documents.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.