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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The NRC is a 'national problem' not just Assam's -Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty

The NRC is a 'national problem' not just Assam's -Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty

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published Published on Sep 4, 2019   modified Modified on Sep 4, 2019
-The Telegraph

Can issuing work permits and settling people outside Assam resolve the problem temporarily?

In his Outlook article, (retired Union Cabinet secretary and a long-time North-east hand at the Centre) G.K. Pillai offered a temporary arrangement of granting ‘a five-year work permit’ to those not included in the final NRC, basically to maintain status quo, ‘to calm things down and allow a range of policy options to be developed carefully over the next couple of years’. He also wrote, ‘Around 75 per cent of these people could be moved out of Assam over the next decade and settled in other parts of the country.’

Both these proposals are not recent though. After the Supreme Court declined the Narendra Modi government’s plea on 30 November 2017, to further extend the date of readying the draft NRC and set 30 December 2017, as the final deadline (it later became the deadline for submitting a partial draft), I wrote a report for the Wire sieving policy suggestions made by researchers and activists thus far. What surfaced were broadly only these two suggestions—issuing work permits and settling some people outside the state. Besides, there could also be a solution by providing some amount of constitutional safeguards to the indigenous/khilonjia people as per a clause of the Assam Accord and thereby allay, once and for all, their festering fear of losing their political, economic and cultural hegemony in their homeland.

AASU, since the talks began with the Indira Gandhi regime, has been suggesting sharing Assam’s ‘burden’ with other states. Even after the signing of the Accord, it has continued with the stand on the ground that the state singularly took the ‘burden’ till 1971 and the remaining lot must be shared by rest of India. Its contention is, other Indian states must also ‘widen their home and heart’ for it is not just Assam’s problem but a ‘national problem’, something that Pillai too tried hinting at in that Outlook article.

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The Telegraph, 3 September, 2019, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/the-nrc-is-a-national-problem-not-just-assam-s/cid/1702337?ref=features_home-template&fbclid=IwAR2mJ8OGDQ3YcfESr-jlmUL_68_GuF


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