-The Hindu Exercise of claims ends; 600 objections have been filed GUWAHATI: About 30 lakh of the 40.07 lakh people left out of the final draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) published five months ago have applied again for inclusion during the claims and objections round that ended on Monday. During the phase, 600 objections also came in from those who doubted the citizenship of others included in the draft. Deadline...
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Centre amends rules for minorities from three nations -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu Citizenship form will have a separate column for them The contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is pending in Parliament, but the Union Home Ministry has notified amendments to the Citizenship Rules, 2009, to include a separate column in the citizenship form for applicants belonging to six minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Under the amendments, a separate entry in the form will ask the applicant: “Do you belong to one...
More »Week to NRC deadline, many are clueless -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu A majority of the 40.7 lakh people excluded from the draft don’t know how to find a place on the list Guwahati: A majority of those excluded from the complete draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam have no clue how to go about getting back on the list with only a week left for the crucial claims and objections round to end. The window for 40.7...
More »Assam: 40 lakh out, only 7 lakh claims in as NRC deadline nears -Abhishek Saha
-The Indian Express The final draft NRC had listed 2.8 crore people, leaving out 40 lakh applicants, with the Supreme Court fixing December 15 as the last day for them to submit ‘Claims and Objections’. A FORTNIGHT to go for the deadline, Hanif Ali (48), a resident of Majortop village in Kamrup district of Assam, has not been able to file a claim against his exclusion from the final draft of...
More »National Register of Citizens: 4.5 lakh reapply for inclusion -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu Pace to pick up before end date Guwahati: About 4.5 lakh of the 40,07,707 people excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) have applied for re-inclusion in the list. Simultaneously, the authorities have received 175 applications challenging the inclusion of names of suspected foreigners in the NRC meant for bona fide residents of Assam. The complete draft of the Supreme Court-monitored NRC was published on July 30. It included the...
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