The state in India’s restive northeast continues to struggle to maintain an accurate record of citizens.
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January 07, 2021
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There is no end to controversies over the register of citizens in India’s northeastern state of Assam, which was updated in a unique exercise as a deterrent against the influx of foreign nationals into the disturbed state.
An affidavit submitted by the National Register of Citizens coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma to Gauhati High Court said that as many as 277,000 “undeserving” people might have enrolled their names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) published on August 31, 2019.
The affidavit based its assessment on the results of a sample re-verification of 27 percent of the entries carried out ahead of the final publication of the list which led to the deletion of 102,462 names from the register. It contended that more undeserving names could be found in the remaining 73 percent unverified results covering an overwhelming ma
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An affidavit filed in the Gauhati High Court claims nearly 300,000 “undeserving” individuals found their way into the updated NRC
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UPDATED: December 15, 2020 00:41 IST
People check their names on the National Register of Citizens list at a centre in Morigaon, Assam, August 31, 2019 (Photo by David Talukdar/Getty Images)
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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.
Assam NRC published last year not final, High Court told
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The affidavit was submitted as per an order by the Gauhati High Court in relation to a writ petition by one Rahima Begam against a Nalbari district Foreigners Tribunal order, declaring her a foreigner.
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Sarma said the matching of Family Tree , which would have been a full-proof method, was not carried out with due diligence in many cases.
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. In the supplementary list of the NRC, over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded and necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 ineligible persons from the document, Sarma said in an affidavit to the high court.