Assam, Centre seek extension of NRC deadline

Please extend the deadline for publication of final Assam NRC from July 31 to a future date. There is a growing perception that many exclusions and many more inclusions have been made wrongly," the solicitor-general said. "India cannot be the refugee capital of the world," he said, adding there was a need to relook the draft NRC list through sample verification. Mehta further said that due to the involvement of local officers, lakhs of people were wrongly included in the NRC in districts bordering Bangladesh. Both the governments moved the apex court on July 17 seeking a direction for 20 per cent sample reverification of names included in the final NRC draft in the districts of Assam bordering Bangladesh and 10 per cent sample reverification of names included in the final draft in the remaining districts. The Centre's plea has also sought to suitably modify the timeline fixed for publication of the final list of NRC from July 31 to a future date. It has also sought direction that such reverification exercise to be conducted by Class I officers of the state government from other districts who have knowledge and experience of handling the process of enquiry/investigation. The pleas have also sought a direction to choose the venue of the sample reverification at a place which was not in the vicinity of the initial NRC verification to rule out the possibility of local influences, bias and threat. It claimed that names of Indian citizens were excluded and illegal Bangladeshi migrants were included in the draft. The Centre also referred to the apex court's 2018 order by which it had said it could consider a re-verification of 10 per cent of the people who were included in the draft NRC. The top court had termed the issue as "human problem with great magnitude" and asked the state NRC coordinator to submit a report in a sealed cover on the ramification of allowing the claimants to file new sets of legacy documents. The first draft of the NRC for Assam was published on the intervening night of December 31, 2017, and January 1, 2018, according to the top court's direction. The names of 1.9 crore people out of the 3.29 crore applicants were incorporated then.Assam, which had faced an influx of people from Bangladesh since the early 20th century, is the only state having an NRC which was first prepared in 1951. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://barkerark.com.au.tempdomain.com/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/57/UserId/748565/Default.aspx

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