NRC Coordinator Prateek Hejela Briefs DCs on Finishing Touches to NRC

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: State NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela has met all deputy commissioners of the State. Prateek Hejela briefed them on giving finishing touches to the NRC and its publication. Now only in-house works of the citizenship document are going on.

The meeting is significant as only seven days are to go for the publication of the final NRC. The meeting took place on Friday evening, close on the heels of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal meeting the deputy commissioners and the superintendents of police on the NRC and other issues. The NRC update work started in mid-2015 in the State. The 1951 NRC which is being updated now had around 80 lakh names. The NRC is unique to Assam.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) (ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় নাগৰিক পঞ্জীকৰণ) is a register containing names of all genuine Indian citizens. The register was first prepared after the 1951 Census of India.Census of India. The National Register of Citizens is now being updated in Assam to include the names of those persons (or their descendants) who appear in the National Register of Citizens, 1951, or in any of the Electoral Rolls up to the midnight of 24 March 1971or in any one of the other admissible documents issued up to midnight of 24 March 1971, which would prove their presence in Assam or in any part of India on or before 24 March 1971.

The update process of NRC started in the year 2013 when the Supreme Court of India passed orders for its update. Since then, the Supreme Court (bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Rohintan Fali Nariman) have been monitoring it continuously. The entire project is headed by the State Coordinator of National Registration, Assam, Mr. Prateek Hajela; under the strict monitoring of the Supreme Court of India.

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