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The crucial claims and objections round of the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is scheduled to start on Tuesday. This phase provides a 60-day window of hope for 40,07,707 of the 32.9 million applicants who were left out of the complete NRC draft published on July 30. The process will also enable correction of names of those included in the draft as well as allow people to raise objections against those they think are suspected foreigners and should not be on the list. The month-long claims and objections round was to have started from August 30. However, the Supreme Court deferred the process because of contradictions in the Centre’s standard operating procedure for filing the claims. NRC officials declined to speak on the claims round citing the court’s gag order. “All we can say is that the forms will be available across 2,500 Nagarik Seva Kendras established for the NRC,” an officer involved with the exercise said. The exercise, though, has been clouded by a controversy surrounding NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela’s suggestion to the Supreme Court to remove five of the 15 documents that were initially required by an applicant to prove his or her citizenship. These include the 1951 NRC and voters’ lists up to March 24, 1971, the cut-off date for detecting and deporting illegal migrants as per the 1985 Assam Accord.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/claims-objections-to-nrc-begin-today/article25032899.ece
