both declared foreigners by FTs (foreign tribunals) in Assam and those who were arrested in Assam for illegally entering from Bangladesh by violating visa provisions
On Friday, 45 men, 21 women and two children who have been "declared foreigners" by the quasi-judicial Foreigner Tribunals and those convicted by judicial courts of visa violations were shifted to the detention centre.
Guwahati: Assam’s first detention centre, officially labelled as Transit Camp at Matia in Goalpara district, received the first batch of 68 people on Friday who were “declared foreigners” by the Foreigners’ Tribunal, authorities said. Until the construction of Matia transit camp with a capacity of 3,000 detenus, the ‘illegal foreigners’ were lodged in six ‘detention centres’
Disasters, displacement and citizenship rights the lingering fears
By News Desk| Published: 15th December 2020 2:35 pm IST
Amir Ullah Khan and Riaz F Shaikh
The Citizenship issue becomes even more critical for those who live in areas that see frequent floods and earthquakes. The population that somehow survives here has many additional problems that people living in plains do not need to worry about.
Ritumbra Manuvie, who teaches at the University of Groningen in Sweden, explores citizenship and its rights from the lens of environmental disasters and the resultant displacement of citizens particularly in the ecologically sensitive state of Assam. She argues that the communities which live at the geographical margins of climate vulnerability are also occupying the margins of political realm and citizenship. What this means is that those who grapple with natural disasters almost all the time now find themselves fighting manmade calamities by way of citizenship registers.
Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court In an affidavit, Sarma said that over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded in the list, adding that necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 ineligible persons from the document Representational image of an NRC Seva Kendra in Assam. Firstpost/Manash Das
Guwahati: The historic National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam published in August last year was only a supplementary list and the final document is yet to come out, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has told the Gauhati High Court.