It was a culmination of the Assam Accord signed in 1985 after the six-year long Assam agitation, for detection, disenfranchisement and deportation of foreigners. The ministry had clarified that "non-inclusion of a person’s name in NRC does not by itself amount to him/her being declared as a foreigner" as they would be given adequate opportunity to present their case before the FTs. The FTs can begin hearing only when the excluded applicants receive “rejection slips” from the authorities. The final NRC is yet to be notified by the Registrar General of India (RGI) under Home Ministry, as those excluded will get an opportunity to present their case before Foreigners Tribunals (FT), quasi-judicial bodies unique to the State. Out of 3.29 crore applicants, 19.06 lakh were excluded from the final draft NRC. The register was updated on August 31, 2019. The NRC was first created in 1951 in Assam to determine those born there, therefore Indian, and who might be a migrant from erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. This is gross injustice to 19 lakh people who are waiting to prove their citizenship for more than two years,” Mr. Moreover, the RGI has repeatedly asked the State Coordinator to issue rejection slips to those excluded from the NRC, but it has refused to listen to the RGI and questioned the entire SC monitored process. “The Supreme Court on five occasions has called the register as final. Assam based lawyer Aman Wadud said that the 2019 register is final and not supplementary. The Hindu specify the number of such illegal entries in the database- 1,032.
In December 2020, the State Coordinator, NRC submitted an affidavit to the Gauhati High Court containing the details of “illegal foreigners” whose names had crept into the updated list of citizens released in 2019. It has alleged that lakhs of “illegal migrants” have been included in the register while genuine citizens have been excluded. The BJP Government in Assam has rejected the NRC in its current form and demanded a reverification. Those excluded will get an opportunity to present their case before Foreigners Tribunals. The final NRC is yet to be notified by the Registrar General of India.The State Coordinator, NRC said that the details of “illegal foreigners” had crept into the updated list while genuine citizens were left out.The Hindu to the the State Coordinator, NRC, Assam specifies the number of illegal entries in the database as 1,032.
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