Demand for Complete Reverification of Draft NRC Exercise

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TINSUKIA: The Tinsukia District Committee of Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM) demanded 100 percent verification of draft NRC exercise in Assam before the publication of the final list. The activists of HGM observed two-hour sit-in in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia on Saturday on the apprehension that in the final NRC several lakhs of Bangladeshi Muslims were likely to be declared as Indian citizens depriving genuine Indian citizens, including inhabitants of the State. In a memorandum to the Registrar General of India submitted through the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia, the HJM alleged that remuneration had not been paid to the school teachers engaged in the NRC process, besides Data Entry Operators were paid Rs 5,000 instead of Rs 14,500 as assured. The memorandum signed jointly by Chandan Bag and Mantu Duarah, president and secretary of HJM respectively, also alleged that 27 percent re-verification of the draft NRC was done without the issuance of any public notice.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) (ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় নাগৰিক পঞ্জীকৰণ) is a register containing names of all genuine Indian citizens. The register was first prepared after the 1951 Census of India. Census of India. The NRC is now being updated in Assam to include the names of those persons (or their descendants) who appear in the NRC, 1951, or in any of the Electoral Rolls up to the midnight of 24 March 1971 or in any one of the other admissible documents issued up to midnight of 24 March 1971, which would prove their presence in Assam or in any part of India on or before 24 March 1971.

The update process of NRC started in the year 2013, when the Supreme Court of India passed orders for its update. Since then, the Supreme Court (bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Rohintan Fali Nariman) have been monitoring it continuously. The entire project is headed by the State Coordinator of National Registration, Assam, Mr. Prateek Hajela; under the strict monitoring of Supreme Court of India.

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