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Assam prints first legal citizens’ list
The remaining 1.39 crore names are still going through the process of verification.
Guwahati: A long-awaited list to separate the genuine residents of border state Assam and illegal Bangladeshi immigrants was released on Sunday midnight. The first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) contains names of 1.9 crore citizens.
The remaining 1.39 crore names are still going through the process of verification.
Registrar general of India Sailesh, who himself was present when the first draft the NRC was released, told reporters that the final draft would be published this year itself.
The process of the NRC update had started in December 2013 and the applications for it were invited in May-June 2015. The last date of submission of applications was August 31, 2015.
Altogether, 3.29 crore residents of Assam had applied for inclusion of their names in the registry after verification of documents and family tree, and around 6.6 crore documents were submitted by the applicants. The first draft of the NRC has been prepared with the names of those whose document verification has been completed. NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela said that the response from other states has not been very encouraging.
