What happens if you are excluded from NRC?
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What happens if you are excluded from NRC?
“Exclusion from the NRC has no implication on the rights of an individual resident in Assam. “For those who are not in the final list will not be detained and will continue to enjoy all the rights as before till they have exhausted all the remedies available under the law,” MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.
How many people in Assam are left out of the NRC?
The final National Register of Citizens or NRC – a list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants from Assam – published on Saturday excluded over 1.9 million people from the list which includes 3.11 crore people.
How many Muslims exclude NRC?
The 2019 Assam NRC list reportedly excluded approximately 486,000 Bangla Muslims (25.5 percent of those excluded from the August 2019 NRC list) of a total of 700,000 excluded Muslims (36.7 percent of the excluded); 500,000-690,000 Bangla Hindus (26.2-36.2 percent of the excluded); and 60,000 Assamese Hindus (3.1 …
Is NRC going to be implemented?
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a register of all Indian citizens whose creation is mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. The Government of India plans to implement it for the rest of the country in 2021.
Why is NRC important in Assam?
NRC for Indian citizens in Assam was first created in 1951. Manipur and Tripura were also granted permission to create their own NRCs, but it never materialised. The reason behind the move was to identify Indian citizens in Assam amid “unabated” migration from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
According to the recommendations, people who migrated between 1951 and 1971, including large sections of post-Partition refugees, would be Indian citizens under the Assam Accord and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), but they would not be eligible for safeguards meant for “Assamese people” under Clause 6 of the …
Why did NRC start in Assam?
How many Hindus are out of NRC in Assam?
The final updated NRC for Assam, published 31 August 2019, contained 31 million names out of 33 million population. It left out about 1.9 million applicants, who seem to be divided roughly equally between Bengali Hindus, Bengali Muslims and other Hindus from various parts of India.