Nrc-Excluded to Get Rejection Slips

The Centre has told the Assam government that “rejection slips” to those excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) published in 2019 should be issued immediately.
National Register of Citizens (NRC):

• NRC is an official record of those who are legal Indian citizens.
• It includes demographic information about all those individuals who qualify as citizens of India as per the Citizenship Act, 1955.
• Assam is the only state where an NRC was compiled under the supervision of the Supreme Court.
• The Assam state government has rejected the NRC in its current form and demanded re-verification of 30% of names included in the NRC in areas bordering Bangladesh and 10% in remaining State.
• According to Article 6 of the Constitution, the cut-off date for migration to India from Pakistan is July 19, 1948 whereas according to the 1985 accord, in Assam (that borders Bangladesh) it is March 24, 1971.
• More than 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants in Assam were left out of the final register.
•  The NRC exercise in Assam took five years to be compiled and cost ₹1,220 crore.
• The Ministry of Home Affairs had earlier said that non-inclusion of a person’s name in the NRC does not by itself amount to him/her being declared as a foreigner and that they would be given adequate opportunity to present their case before the Foreigners Tribunals (FTs).
• The time limit to appeal before the FTs, the quasi-judicial bodies unique to Assam, has been increased from 60 to 120 days.

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, MINT