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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Faizan Mustafa: Which Documents Will be Required for the NRIC?

Faizan Mustafa: Which Documents Will be Required for the NRIC?

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published Published on Dec 27, 2019   modified Modified on Dec 27, 2019
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At the moment, the looming NPR process betokens a loss of liberty to Indians whether through their inclusion as citizens or their exclusion as illegal immigrants.

Dismissing Amit Shah’s statement that the process for the registration of citizens is yet to be worked out, Prof Faizan Mustafa warns that the data collected for the National Population Register (NPR) under Census 2020 will later be used for the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC, or NRC), and that the rules for this process had already been fixed under the Vajpayee government in 2003. That year, the Citizenship Act of 1955 was amended to include Section 14-A, and this amendment has created the legal grounds for the NRC. Indeed, the NPR is framed on the basis of this law, rather than the Census Act of 1948 —which would normally govern any population count. Under the authority of the Registrar General of India, who heads the census exercise, the process of preparing the NPR will be enumerative and comprehensive, not application-based (as was the case in Assam, where it was left to individual applicants to approach the authorities and assert aclaim to citizenship). While the NRC has not yet been officially notified, the NPR data — to be collected between April 1 and September 30, 2020 — will be a big step towards thecrystallisation of a national register. Indeed, the UP government is already preparing the ground for it, with surveys, video documentation and surveillance records.

Once the census is underway, people whose documentation is held to beincomplete or suspect will be placed in a separate list for further inquiry. Thus, the first stage of exclusion will be decided by a low-ranking official, as was done in Assam with the list of “Doubtfuls”. There, the election commission’s D-voter list, begun under T.N. Seshan andsteadily expanded thereafter, was a significant contributor to the miseries brought by the NRC. The lesson from the Assam experience is that petty exclusions in an unrelated-seeming process can and will count against an individual. In Assam, applicants who found themselves isolated in a separate category had to fill out a form seeking the correction or ratification of their documents, and approach the foreigners’ tribunals with these forms. The tribunals were establishedunder the Foreigners’ Act of 1946 —not originally meant forcrosschecking the identity of Indian citizens, but repurposed towards this end. It is important that thenationwide NRC process not go down the same path. Mustafa emphasises that citizens’ tribunals need to be set up, with their own governing rules, distinct from those of the foreigners’ tribunals. The verification process will need to override discrepancies within documents such as variable spelling, a missing middle name, and so on, which caused immense grief in Assam.

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Newsclick.in/ ICF Team, 26 December, 2019, https://www.newsclick.in/faizan-mustafa-which-documents-will-be-required-nric?fbclid=IwAR0DaSug4jqi9luZvUwi84LGa0iPmBkYp1y_4_jRAWwbKbZObGJQyVxQTXE


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