-The Indian Express Can a democracy permit so many to be in a state of liminal legality? NRC poses a political and moral question The possibility — whether immediate or somewhat remote — that at the end of the process as many as 4 million people may lose their legal status as citizens should not be a cause of celebration in a democracy. Nor should it generate a mad rush among...
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EC seeks to delink voter list from NRC
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Election Commission has said exclusion from the draft National Register of Citizens in Assam doesn't automatically cause disenfranchisement. "The Election Commission of India voter enrolment exercise is independent of the NRC, though they are working in sync," chief election commissioner O.P. Rawat said on Wednesday. The commission will go by three criteria - a voter person needs to be a citizen of India, he or she should be...
More »Fact finding report observes serious loopholes in the implementation of NFSA that caused recent hunger deaths of Delhi kids
-Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan and Right to Food Campaign, dated 1st August, 2018 Three minor girls Mansi (8), Shikha (4) and Parul (2) died on July 24, 2018 in Mandawali, East Delhi and the post mortem reports listed starvation as the cause of the deaths. Members of the Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan (DRRAA)- Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri along with Harsh Mander (former special commissioner to the Supreme...
More »Assam: Over 40 lakh people left out of final draft of National Register of Citizens
-Scroll.in The list verifies 2.89 crore people, out of the 3.29 crore who had applied, as legal citizens of India. The Assam government published the final draft of the National Register of Citizens on Monday. Around 40 lakh people did not find mention in the list out of 3.29 crore applicants. The stated aim of the counting exercise is to separate genuine Indian citizens from so-called illegal migrants who might be living...
More »Untangling the knot of citizenship -Sanjoy Hazarika
-The Tribune Assam is tense; internet services have been suspended and security forces on standby with the final draft list of the controversial NRC out. Sanjoy Hazarika, a specialist on the north-east, explains why it is sitting on a powder keg I’M not getting into the numbers game for Assam and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) process which is a draft in progress. The first draft, published last December had 19...
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