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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.
Guwahati, Dec 10 : In a significant revelation, the National Register of Citizens’ (NRC) Assam state coordinator has told that the Gauhati High Court claimed that there might be 2.77 lakh “undeserving” names in the list, released on August 31 last year, excluding the names of over 19 lakh persons, officials said on Thursday.
Assam’s NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma, following the court’s direction in October, submitted a detailed affidavit, saying that the NRC published in August last year was only a “supplementary list” and the final document is yet to published by the Registrar General of India (RGI).
The affidavit said: “Considering the fact that 1,02,462 names deleted through ‘incidental verification’ of 27 per cent of the draft NRC, one definitely cannotignore the remaining 73 per cent unverified results where there may be 2.77 lakhs undeserving names in the NRC going by the same arithmetic.”