Assam NRC Published Last Year Not Final, Over 10k Names Wrongly Included: State Coordinator to HC

The historic National Register of Citizens in Assam published in August last year was only a "supplementary list" and the final document is yet to come out, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has told the Gauhati High Court. In the "supplementary list" of the NRC, over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded and necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 "ineligible persons" from the document, Sarma said in an affidavit to the high court. "…the Supplementary NRC was already published by the LRCPs on 31st August, 2019, but the final National Register of Citizens is yet to be published by the Registrar General of India as per Clause 7 of the Schedule of the Citizenship Rules, 2003," it said. Sarma further stated that after the publication of the "supplementary list" of inclusion and exclusion on August 31 last year, some of the District Registrar of Citizens Registers formally requested the NRC state coordinator to "change results" of NRC with "proper reasons".