NAMES OF ALL NRC APPLICANTS POSTED ONLINE
GUWAHATI:A final Assam citizens’ list reflecting the inclusion and exclusion status of its over 33 million applicants was published on Saturday on the National Register of Citizen (NRC) website, weeks after the list that excluded over 1.9 million people was published.
Individuals can now check the status of their families together by keying in their application receipt number on the website.
“This list does not affect the result in any manner. This is just a consolidated list where all applicants from a family who have the same application receipt number (ARN) can check their status together online,” said an official familiar with the NRC developments on condition of anonymity.
GUWAHATI: The complete list of Assam citizens, reflecting the inclusion and exclusion status of over 33 million applicants, was published on the official National Register of Citizen (NRC) website on Saturday, weeks after the issuance of the final list that excluded over 1.9 million people.
The list will be available only online and has been published in the English and Assamese languages. An official familiar with the developments said the decision was taken to provide the applicants a single portal where they can check the status of their entire family by keying in the application receipt number. “This list does not affect the result in any manner. This is just a consolidated list where all applicants from a family who have the same application receipt number (ARN) can check their status together online through their ARN numbers,” the official said.
On August 31, the office of Prateek Hajela, the state coordinator of the NRC, only published the supplementary list. The supplementary list had names of those who submitted claims after their names were not included in draft NRC, those against whom objections were filed against their inclusion in the draft NRC, those whose names figured in the additional draft exclusion list published on June 26 and those called in for hearings post July 5 after their inclusion in the draft NRC came under a shadow of doubt.
Hajela’s office had earlier clarified that those who had their names in the draft NRC and who were not called for any hearings post July 5 need not worry about the supplementary list as they would continue to be included in the NRC.
However, while checking their status, the applicants have also been notified of various reasons which would lead to the deletion of their names from the list — if it is discovered that any of the persons included in the list are among those declared foreigner by a foreigners’ tribunal or has a case pending at the foreigners’ tribunal or comes from the category of those marked as ‘Doubtful voters’, or a descendants of a person from the three categories.
The note cites Rule 10 of The Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, which says names can be removed from NRC in case of revocation of Indian citizenship or if the particulars provided are found to be incorrect, thereby affecting one’s citizenship status. The notification on the NRC website also clarifies that inclusion in final list is not a guarantee of being certified as a citizen and an adverse opinion from a foreigners’ tribunal would automatically lead to deletion from the NRC.
Those excluded from the NRC have the option of filing appeals in Foreigners’ Tribunals, the quasi-judicial bodies after the receipt of the certified copies of rejection from Hajela’s office, which is likely to announce a time frame for the same soon.