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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kolkata's 200-year-old archives to the rescue of NRC-hit residents -Shiv Sahay Singh

Kolkata's 200-year-old archives to the rescue of NRC-hit residents -Shiv Sahay Singh

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published Published on Aug 4, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 4, 2018
-The Hindu

Scores of visitors from Assam are looking for the names of the earlier generations in the electoral rolls from 1952 to 1971; the State archives issues certified copies

Kolkata: Mintu Das, a Guwahati-based businessman, could not find the names of three members of his family on July 30 when the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam. In the past two days, Mr. Das had tried all places where he could find documents that could confirm his father Santosh Das lived in Kolkata during the 1960s.

On Thursday afternoon, he landed at the four-storied building at 43 Shakespeare Sarani and kept looking through hundreds of pages of the voter list of Dum Dum Assembly segment in the northern fringes of Kolkata.

For the past several months, the office of the Directorate of State Archives, whose roots can be traced to the General Record office of 1820 in British India, has been entertaining scores of visitors from Assam who are looking for the names of the earlier generations in the electoral rolls from 1952 to 1971.

Arduous task

“There are 50 to 60-year-old documents. Ploughing through them is not easy,” Mr. Das said, anxiously lifting his head from the electoral rolls of the Dum Dum Assembly segment dating to 1971.

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The Hindu, 2 August, 2018, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/kolkatas-200-year-old-archives-to-the-rescue-of-nrc-hit-residents/article24584350.ece


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