Assam mulls 10 centres for those excluded from NRC

The Assam government has sent a proposal to the Centre for fast-tracking the establishment of 10 detention centres across the State to house people who would be excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The Supreme Court-monitored register, being updated on the basis of its 1951 avatar, has to be published by July 31.
NRC exclusion
About 40.07 lakh people out of 3.29 crore applicants had been excluded from the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018. Another 1.02 lakh people were removed from the draft list of citizens on June 26. “We have sent the proposal for 10 new centres in various places for NRC-excluded people,” Kumar Sanjay Krishna, Assam’s Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Political) told The Hindu on Wednesday.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/assam-mulls-10-centres-for-those-excluded-from-nrc/article28365784.ece