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With floods ruining NRC-relevant documents, Assam residents face bleak future -Satananda Bhattacharjee

-TheFederal.com

The residents, who have lost their official documents in the flood water, now have no means to prove their Indian identity through the NRC

Floods can wreck homes and lives, but if you are in this part of the country, it could even affect your citizenship.

“I can’t prove my citizenship now. I have lost everything in the recent floods. My house in Ashram Road is still under water. I have lost all the important documents,” said a heartbroken Sefali, aged 50, sitting at a relief camp in Silchar, a city located 350 km away from Guwahati in Assam.

Assam is just recovering from one of the worst floods in decades, which caused damages worth nearly 10,000 crore and left nearly 200 people killed.

What makes Sefali’s case precarious is the impending National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the subsequent Citizenship Act.

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