Guwahati: Nearly one and a half years after the ultimate list of Assam National Population Register (NRC) was released, NRC Coordinator of Assam Hitesh Sharma has told the Guwahati supreme court that the ultimate list of NRC is yet to be released by the Registrar General of India (RGI). .Based on the copy of the affidavit obtained on Wednesday, the Indian Express reported that during this affidavit filed on December 3, Sharma stated that RGI was silent on the publication of the ultimate list.
He
called the list published on 31 August 2019 as supplementary
(supplementary) NRC and said that it contains 4,700 ineligible names.
Explain that the list of NRC published directly under the supervision of the Supreme Court was published on August 31, 2019, during which 1,906,657 people weren't named. Out of a complete of 33,027,661 applicants, 31,121,004 names of individuals were included.
According to the info of the government , among the quite 19 lakh people whose names weren't included within the list, there have been 5.56 lakh Hindus and 11 lakh Muslims.
In a press statement, then NRC state coordinator Prateek Hajela called it the ultimate list.
However,
the Assam government had mistaken the August 2019 list and blamed
Hazela for creating a flawed NRC. He was kicked out of the state by the
Supreme Court last year after his relations with the government deteriorated.
In September this year, the Assam government said that it had been adamant on its demand for 10 to twenty percent re-verification of names included within the 2019 NRC.
The
NRC process has been stalled since then and yet 19 lakh persons who are
out of the NRC office are yet to issue rejection orders.
Only after receiving this order can these people appeal against their stay outside the Foreign Tribunal.
In the affidavit, Sharma replied that each one the discrepancies known to him within the published NRC were reported to RGI in February this year.
In addition, he sought the required guidelines for corrective measures within the interest of an error-free NRC which is extremely important as NRC is directly associated with national security and integrity.
However, RGI has not given any instructions on the way to affect the discrepancies.
He wrote, 'Instead NRC's updation slips and directions for termination of operations are received. The Registrar General of India is additionally silent on the ultimate publication of the NRC, which is that the sole authority to require this action and till date Clause 7 of the principles
under the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National
Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 by the Registrar General of India According the ultimate NRC is yet to be published.
At an equivalent time, the Assam government is on the demand of re-verification i.e. 20 percent names within the districts bordering Bangladesh and 10 percent names within the remaining part.
Earlier, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Assam Chandra Mohan Patwari had told the legislature in August this year that the government had filed an affidavit during this regard within the Supreme Court.
Sharma
wrote that after the publication of the NRC in August 2019, some
district heads of the NRC process, the District Registrar of Citizens'
Register (DRCR), had asked the then state coordinator to vary the results.
A
total of 10,199 requests were made, of which 5,404 were to convert the
result from 'reject' to 'Accept' and 4,795 were to convert the result
from 'Accept' to 'reject'.
Of the 4,795 requests, 1,032 were for deletion as they fall into
the category of Declared Foreigners (DF), Doutful Voters (DV), Persons
with Pending Cases on Foreign Tribunals (PFTs) and descendants of those categories. The remaining 3,763 requests were for the removal of names thanks to other reasons.
Sharma had already written to the NRC district in-charge in October to get rid of 1,032 names. Sharma wrote that action on 3,763 names are going to be considered after further verification of approval by the Registrar General of India.
The verification process requires the approval of the Registrar General of India to start and if required, such verification would require the required approval of the cash by the Registrar General of India.
In the affidavit, Sharma has tried to elucidate intimately how there have been flaws in various stages of the NRC process during Hazela's tenure. As people were put within the category of natives despite not being within the category, the verification steps weren't executed with due diligence, the integrity of a number of the verification officers wasn't definitely et al. by top officials. Lack of quality check.
Significantly, since the publication of the list of NRC in 2019, questions are raised on this. BJP was the primary ruling party of the state to boost questions.
After the publication of the ultimate list on 31 August, the BJP said that it doesn't trust the updated list of NRC.
In a news conference by BJP Assam President Ranjit Kumar Das, it had been said that the ultimate list of NRC has officially given a way smaller number of excluded people as compared to the figures mentioned earlier.
After this, senior state leader and minister of finance Himanta Biswa Sharma had also said that within the final list of NRC many such people
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