Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

SC wants district-wise data of those excluded

- Press Trust of India letters@hindustant­imes.com

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) coordinato­r to place before it the data of district-wise percentage of population excluded from the NRC draft in the state.

A bench comprising justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph sought responses from all stakeholde­rs including All Assam Students Union, All Assam Minority Students Union on the Centre’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on the NRC issue.

It directed the state NRC coordinato­r Prateek Hajela to make available the copies of draft NRC at all panchayat offices so that public can access it easily.

The apex court said the claim and objection forms on the Assam NRC issue will be made available to the general public from August 20.It also said that the receipt of claim and objection forms from the public will commence on August 30.

The court posted the matter for further hearing on August 28.

Assam, which had faced influx of people from Bangladesh since the early 20th century, is the only state having an NRC, which was first prepared in 1951.

The top court, which is monitoring the NRC work, had earlier said that the claims of those citizens, whose names do not figure in the draft NRC for Assam published by December 31 last year, would be scrutinise­d and included in the subsequent list, if found genuine.

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