Assam government to provide free legal aid to those excluded from final list of NRC to be published on 31 August
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam government to provide free legal aid to those excluded from final list of NRC to be published on 31 August

Firstpost  

Assam government will make necessary arrangements to provide free legal aid to those needy people, who would be excluded from the final list of NRC to be published on 31 August, a senior government official said. Guwahati: Assam government will make necessary arrangements to provide free legal aid to those needy people, who would be excluded from the final list of NRC to be published on 31 August, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Persons left out of the National Register of Citizens will not be detained under any circumstances until foreigners tribunals declare it, Assam’s Additional Chief Secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna said in a statement on Tuesday. “The state government will make necessary arrangements to provide legal aid to the needy people amongst those excluded from NRC, by providing all assistance through the District Legal Services Authorities,” he said.

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Assam Citizenship Crisis: Supreme Court Backs 1971 Cut-off Date, Impact on NRC and CAA Implementation
2 months ago

Assam Citizenship Crisis: Supreme Court Backs 1971 Cut-off Date, Impact on NRC and CAA Implementation

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 07, 2024 21:26 IST - 12 MINS READ With the five-member Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. The Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha filed a petition challenging Section 6A and seeking 1951 as the cut-off year for accepting immigrants as Indian citizens; it also wanted the NRC to be updated. The State now has two cut-off …

How do Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function? | Explained
5 months, 3 weeks ago

How do Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: On July 5, the Assam government asked the Border wing of the State’s police not to forward cases of non-Muslims who entered India illegally before 2014 to the Foreigners Tribunals. The FTs are currently exclusive to Assam as cases of “illegal immigrants” are dealt with according to the Foreigners’ Act in other States. The apex court …

More than 1.59 lakh declared as 'foreigners' in Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma
10 months, 4 weeks ago

More than 1.59 lakh declared as 'foreigners' in Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Hindustan Times  

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has shared that more than 1.59 lakh people have been declared as 'foreigners' in the state so far. Assam chief minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma Sarma was responding to a question by opposition AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam in the assembly. In response to another question from Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, Sarma said as per …

Inflow Of Illegal Migrants To Assam And North-Eastern States
1 year, 1 month ago

Inflow Of Illegal Migrants To Assam And North-Eastern States

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union Government to furnish data on the inflow of illegal migrants to Assam and North-Eastern states after March 25, 1971.The Court also directed the Centre to inform the steps taken by the Government at an administrative level to deal with illegal immigration into the North Eastern states particularly Assam. The Supreme Court on …

Matia 'Transit Camp' Is No Answer, Assam Needs a Non-Punitive Immigration Policy
1 year, 11 months ago

Matia 'Transit Camp' Is No Answer, Assam Needs a Non-Punitive Immigration Policy

The Quint  

The lack of due process norms in the functioning of Foreigners Tribunals, and the resultant challenges faced by litigants have been well documented. The push towards criminalising immigration took another step when the Citizenship Act, 2003, introduced the category of “illegal migrants”, denoting criminality to persons who enter India without a valid passport or travel documents, or stayed beyond the …

Cloud over 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals, in Assam
2 years, 3 months ago

Cloud over 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals, in Assam

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The Assam government has decided not to extend the term of members who were appointed for 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals that were set up primarily to handle cases related to the National Register of Citizens. Done and dusted: On the National Register of Citizens process Assam has had 100 regular FTs since 2009 to try the cases of suspected …

Over 30,000 Illegal Foreigners Deported Till 31 August Based on Assam Accord
2 years, 3 months ago

Over 30,000 Illegal Foreigners Deported Till 31 August Based on Assam Accord

The Quint  

According to the Assam Accord signed on 15 August 1985, anyone entering the state on or after 25 March 1971 will be deemed a foreigner and will be deported from the state. Clause 6 of the Assam Accord guarantees "Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic …

The confusion over the status of the Assam NRC
2 years, 7 months ago

The confusion over the status of the Assam NRC

The Hindu  

The story so far: A member of one of Assam’s functional 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals had on May 10 written to Hitesh Dev Sarma, the State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens, asking him to stop interfering in the lawful functioning of the tribunals. This letter was in response to Mr. Sarma’s April 18 letter to all the FT members …

Assam’s NRC not final, Foreigners’ Tribunals told
2 years, 7 months ago

Assam’s NRC not final, Foreigners’ Tribunals told

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens has reminded members of Foreigners’ Tribunals across Assam to not consider the draft NRC and its supplementary list as reliable evidence for the disposal of cases. “Since the Registrar General of Citizens Registration has not declared NRC as final and there are errors, things may change when the final NRC …

31 declared foreigners died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Assam govt
2 years, 9 months ago

31 declared foreigners died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Assam govt

Hindustan Times  

SILCHAR: A total of 31 persons who were declared foreigners have died in Assam’s six detention centres between 2016 and 2022, according to a statement by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made in the state assembly. The foreigners tribunal courts in Assam have issued notices to 19,358 persons between May 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022 asking them to prove …

Assam CM wants fresh NRC
2 years, 9 months ago

Assam CM wants fresh NRC

The Hindu  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the updating of the National Register of Citizens in the State should be done afresh. The updated list of citizens published in August 2019 had excluded 19.06 lakh people out of 3.3 crore applicants. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Assam had found fault with the updated NRC draft, alleging that …

The controversies around the Final Draft of Citizenship in Assam
3 years, 1 month ago

The controversies around the Final Draft of Citizenship in Assam

The Hindu  

The story so far: In response to a Right to Information application by The Hindu, the State Coordinator, National Register of Citizens, Assam said that 1032 doubtful cases in the final draft of NRC, Assam have been referred to the concerned district commissioners for necessary action. The State Coordinator, NRC said that the details of “illegal foreigners” had crept into …

Only 1032 doubtful cases from NRC referred for further action
3 years, 1 month ago

Only 1032 doubtful cases from NRC referred for further action

The Hindu  

Only little over a thousand doubtful cases in the final draft of the National Register of Citizens, Assam have been referred to the concerned district commissioners for necessary action, State Coordinator of NRC, Assam has said in an RTI reply. The BJP-ruled Assam government has rejected the NRC in its current form and demanded re-verification of at least 30% names …

NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue
3 years, 3 months ago

NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue

The Hindu  

The long pause in the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens and a series of decisions have indicated that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government may have gone soft on the ‘Bangladeshi’ issue. Detention centres renamed ‘transit camps’ Apart from going slow on the NRC, the government showed signs of softening its stand on the Bangladeshi issue by …

Assam NRC Published On August 31, 2019 Is Final: Foreigners Tribunal
3 years, 3 months ago

Assam NRC Published On August 31, 2019 Is Final: Foreigners Tribunal

Live Law  

The Assam's Foreigners Tribunal in Karimganj has recently observed that the NRC list published in the year 2019 is final. The observation came while the Tribunal declared a doubtful voter, whose name appeared in the final NRC list, as an Indian citizen. ".Final NRC, has been published on 31.08.2019 which is available online in the official website of NRC Assam …

NRC Published in August 2019 is Final, Rules Assam Foreigners' Tribunal
3 years, 3 months ago

NRC Published in August 2019 is Final, Rules Assam Foreigners' Tribunal

News 18  

The National Register of Citizens published on August 31, 2019 is the “Final NRC”, ruled a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam, even as the Registrar General of India is yet to notify it. Declaring a man Indian citizen, the tribunal in Karimganj district held that though National Identity Cards are yet to be issued, “but there is no doubt that this …

NRC is final, rules Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal
3 years, 3 months ago

NRC is final, rules Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal

The Hindu  

While the Registrar General of India has not yet issued a notification on Assam’s National Register of Citizens to make it a legal document, a Foreigners’ Tribunal has gone ahead and recorded it as the “ final NRC ” while declaring a man to be Indian. Hearing a case against one Bikram Singha of Jamirala village whose name figured in …

Gurkhas not to be tagged as foreigners, orders Assam govt
3 years, 4 months ago

Gurkhas not to be tagged as foreigners, orders Assam govt

The Hindu  

The Assam government’s Political Department on Tuesday issued a notification ordering the State police’s Border wing not to forward any case against Gurkhas to the Foreigners’ Tribunals under the Foreigners’ Act of 1946. The official notification follows the Himanta Biswa Sarma Cabinet’s decision on August 4 to exempt the community from being tagged as non-citizens and tried in the tribunals …

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list
3 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list

The Hindu  

The Assam National Register of Citizens authority has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time-bound re-verification of the citizens’ list, highlighting “major irregularities” in the process. The interlocutory application by State NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma also prays for the deletion of illegal voters from Assam’s electoral rolls besides the revision of the draft NRC and a supplementary …

Assam NRC: State Coordinator Moves Supreme Court Seeking Comprehensive, Time Bound Re-verification Of Draft NRC
3 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC: State Coordinator Moves Supreme Court Seeking Comprehensive, Time Bound Re-verification Of Draft NRC

Live Law  

The State Co-ordinator of the Assam NRC has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time bound reverification of draft NRC and the supplementary list of NRC under Clause 4 of Schedule of Citizenship Rules, 2003 highlighting major irregularity in the process of making the same.The intervention application. The State Co-ordinator of the Assam NRC has approached the Supreme …

Court stays sacking of 252 Assam NRC workers
3 years, 8 months ago

Court stays sacking of 252 Assam NRC workers

The Hindu  

The Gauhati High Court has stayed the termination of 252 junior assistants who had been employed on contract for updating the National Register of Citizens in Assam. They were served the termination notice on March 26, three days after the Registrar General of India ordered the closure of the NRC office in Assam and declined to sanction any fund after …

Assam NRC- Citizen Can't Be Declared Foreigner Just Because Linkage Is Not Shown With All Relatives : Gauhati High Court
3 years, 8 months ago

Assam NRC- Citizen Can't Be Declared Foreigner Just Because Linkage Is Not Shown With All Relatives : Gauhati High Court

Live Law  

In an astonishing order, a Foreigners Tribunal in Assam had declared a man named Haidar Ali as a foreigner although he had established the link with the names of his father and grandfather entered in the voters lists of 1965 and 1970.The Tribunal at Barpeta observed that since Haider Ali had failed to establish his linkage with other projected relatives …

Plea To Provide Legal Aid To NRC Excluded People In Assam: Gauhati High Court Issues Notice To UOI, State Government
3 years, 10 months ago

Plea To Provide Legal Aid To NRC Excluded People In Assam: Gauhati High Court Issues Notice To UOI, State Government

Live Law  

While hearing a plea filed by the Human rights organization 'Citizens for Justice and Peace' seeking proper legal aid for such people who have been left out of the National Register of Citizens in Assam, the Gauhati High Court on Monday issued notice to the Union of India, State Government among others. In related news, the Assam Government last month …

Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court
4 years, 1 month ago

Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court

Firstpost  

In an affidavit, Sarma said that over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded in the list, adding that necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 ‘ineligible persons’ from the document Guwahati: 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 …

Assam NRC Published Last Year Not Final, Over 10k Names Wrongly Included: State Coordinator to HC
4 years, 1 month ago

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

News 18  

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 …

‘Foreigners’ in the NRC: Affidavit filed in High Court
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Foreigners’ in the NRC: Affidavit filed in High Court

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authorities have submitted to the Gauhati High Court an affidavit reportedly containing the details of “illegal foreigners” whose names had crept into the updated list of citizens released in 2019. It was later found that some “ineligible people” — those without papers establishing their domicile in Assam before March 24, 1971 — had been included …

Explain Inclusion Of 'Undeserving' Individuals In Assam National Register Of Citizens: Gauhati High Court Directs NRC Coordinator [Read Order]
4 years, 2 months ago

Explain Inclusion Of 'Undeserving' Individuals In Assam National Register Of Citizens: Gauhati High Court Directs NRC Coordinator [Read Order]

Live Law  

In a recent verdict, the Gauhati High Court asked the coordinator of National Register of Citizens to explain how the name of the Petitioner got included in the Register despite the fact that at the relevant point of time, proceedings against her were continuing. "Let the Assam State Coordinator, NRC file a comprehensive affidavit and bring on record the situations …

Names of 10,000 'Ineligible Persons' and Their Descendants to Be Deleted from Final Assam NRC List
4 years, 2 months ago

Names of 10,000 'Ineligible Persons' and Their Descendants to Be Deleted from Final Assam NRC List

News 18  

Around 10,000 names will be deleted from the final NRC in Assam as many “ineligible persons” and their descendants were included in the list, according to a directive issued by its state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma and officials in the know of the decision. “As per the reports received from your end through Webform, some names of ineligible persons belonging …

Fear of statelessness haunts thousands rejected by NRC in Assam
4 years, 9 months ago

Fear of statelessness haunts thousands rejected by NRC in Assam

The Hindu  

The fear of statelessness among in Assam has a name now. The number is a reference to Ms. Begum, who submitted 15 documents, including PAN card, land revenue receipt and bank passbook but did not pass muster for the Gauhati High Court to overrule the order of a Foreigners Tribunal declaring her a foreigner of the “post-March 1971 stream”. But …

19 lakh people from March 20 to start receiving NRC rejection slips in Assam
4 years, 10 months ago

19 lakh people from March 20 to start receiving NRC rejection slips in Assam

India TV News  

Over 19 lakh people from March 20 may start receiving 'Rejection Slip' issued by the National Register of Citizens authority, the Assam government has informed. At present, work related to scanning of "speaking order" is going on and around 12 per cent job is left, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said while replying to a written query by Congress …

MHA-appointed panel's recommendation of 1951 as cut-off date to define Assam 'indigenous' meets resistance from minority groups
4 years, 10 months ago

MHA-appointed panel's recommendation of 1951 as cut-off date to define Assam 'indigenous' meets resistance from minority groups

Firstpost  

The Sharma Committee, which has members of the All Assam Students Union, one of the signatory bodies of the Assam Accord, and is headed by Justice Biplab Kumar Sharma, will submit its recommendations on Clause 6 of the Assam Accord on Tuesday as the debate over who is ‘Assamese’ continues. The Amid the raging protests over the contentious citizenship Act …

Assam NRC authority seeks details of ‘ineligible persons’
4 years, 10 months ago

Assam NRC authority seeks details of ‘ineligible persons’

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authority has indicated at an erroneous updating exercise by asking the district heads in Assam to provide details of “ineligible persons” in the final list of citizens published on August 31, 2019. Indigenous groups believe many illegal immigrants have made it to the NRC in the three Bengali-dominated southern Assam districts – Cachar, Hailakandi and …

Supreme Court directs Centre, Assam government to file status report on Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres
4 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court directs Centre, Assam government to file status report on Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre and the Assam government to file a fresh report with regard to the status of release of Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres as per its earlier order New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre and the Assam government to file a fresh report with regard to the status of release of …

Assam NRC exercise and citizenship determination drive hold warning to other states of the shape of things to come
4 years, 11 months ago

Assam NRC exercise and citizenship determination drive hold warning to other states of the shape of things to come

Firstpost  

As the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, National Population Register and National Register of Citizens rage on in India, the streets are abounding with speculations about what the country’s future is going to look like. It was only last year November when former Chief Justice of India and one of the two Supreme Court judges that passed the …

Don’t send children excluded from Assam NRC to detention camps: Supreme Court
5 years ago

Don’t send children excluded from Assam NRC to detention camps: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that children excluded from the National Register of Citizens for Assam but whose parents/guardians/caregivers are part of the final list, should not be sent to detention camps or separated from their loved ones at any cost. Mr. Venugopal intervened, saying “children excluded from NRC whose parents have been given citizenship will not be sent …

Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC
5 years ago

Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC

India TV News  

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that children, whose parents have been given citizenship through NRC, will not be separated from their families and sent to the detention centres in Assam. "Almost three months after the publication of the NRC Final List, the state of Assam is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis as a direct result …

Children Of Parents Included In Assam NRC Will Not Be Sent To Detention Centres : AG Tells SC [Read Order]
5 years ago

Children Of Parents Included In Assam NRC Will Not Be Sent To Detention Centres : AG Tells SC [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Attorney General of India K K Venugopal on Monday assured the Supreme Court that children of persons included in Assam NRC will not be sent to detention centres while the Court is considering the application seeking protection of such children.The AG made this submission before a bench of CJI SA Bobde, Justices Surya Kant and B R Gavai in …

Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens: The Evils That Aren't - News18
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens: The Evils That Aren't - News18

News 18  

The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act in both Houses of Parliament has thrown up protests — violent and peaceful — as well as criticisms ranging from unconstitutionality of the CAA to exclusion of certain other refugees to the criminal designs of the CAA-NRC combination. First, it isn’t just Hindus but five other minority religions from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh …

Almost 1.3 lakh people declared foreigners in Assam
5 years ago

Almost 1.3 lakh people declared foreigners in Assam

Hindustan Times  

The ministry of home affairs informed the Parliament on Tuesday that 1,29,009 people have been declared as foreigners while 1,14,225 people have been declared as Indians by the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam as of October 2019. The ministry of home affairs informed the Parliament on Tuesday that 1,29,009 people have been declared as foreigners by the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam …

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill may benefit ‘declared foreigners’
5 years, 1 month ago

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill may benefit ‘declared foreigners’

The Hindu  

The Citizenship Bill, 2019 that will be introduced in Parliament on December 9 is also likely to benefit the non-Muslims who were declared illegal migrants by various Foreigners Tribunals in Assam. The redrafted Bill has a provision to abate “any proceedings pending against a person under this section in respect of illegal migration or citizenship before any authority including Foreigners …

CAG script detects huge anomalies in Assam NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma
5 years, 1 month ago

CAG script detects huge anomalies in Assam NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma

India Today  

Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has detected huge irregularities and anomalies in the National Register of Citizens updation process in the state. The Assam minister said, "The CAG had found the irregularities and anomalies in the NRC in the state. Prima facie, huge irregularities and anomalies were informed to …

BJP’s pan-India NRC pitch: Decoding the National Register of Citizens debate
5 years, 1 month ago

BJP’s pan-India NRC pitch: Decoding the National Register of Citizens debate

Hindustan Times  

Home minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that an NRC will be created for all regions of India, expanding an exercise that was recently carried out in Assam and led to the identification of 1.9 million people who now face the risk of being labelled illegal immigrants. Under the Citizenship Act, a person who enters India without valid travel documents …

Assam NRC: 1.9 million residents may soon be deemed stateless, says USCIRF
5 years, 1 month ago

Assam NRC: 1.9 million residents may soon be deemed stateless, says USCIRF

India TV News  

Nearly two million long-time residents of Assam may soon be deemed stateless, the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom said on Tuesday as it expressed concerns over the NRC exercise. In a report on the religious freedom implications of the National Register of Citizens, the USCIRF said 1.9 million names of residents of Assam have been left off the …

Amit Shah says NRC applies across India, Mamata Banerjee says not in West Bengal
5 years, 1 month ago

Amit Shah says NRC applies across India, Mamata Banerjee says not in West Bengal

India Today  

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says her Trinamool Congress government won't allow the National Register of Citizens in her state. She said on Wednesday that no one could take anyone's citizenship away in Bengal, and that her government wouldn't divide people on communal lines. Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the NRC would be implemented across India, and …

Assam govt rejects present NRC, wants to be part of national NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma
5 years, 1 month ago

Assam govt rejects present NRC, wants to be part of national NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma

India Today  

Assam government rejected the present National Register of Citizens wanting it to be part of a national NRC. Assam Finance Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said in Guwahati that the present NRC process in Assam should be scrapped and Assam wants to be a part of the national NRC process. When the national NRC will be prepared, Assam …

NRC is not a new idea, we have only updated the 1951 NRC list: CJI Ranjan Gogoi
5 years, 2 months ago

NRC is not a new idea, we have only updated the 1951 NRC list: CJI Ranjan Gogoi

The Hindu  

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said the Assam National Register of Citizens process to identify illegal aliens residing in the border State was “neither a new or novel idea” but only an attempt to update the 1951 NRC list. The NRC 2019 is an attempt to end the vicious cycles of violence and agitations in Assam over the presence …

Comment | Three sloppy claims about NRC
5 years, 3 months ago

Comment | Three sloppy claims about NRC

The Hindu  

The BJP government at the Centre has plans to identify all infiltrators in India and throw them out of the country, according to Union Home Minister Amit Shah. NRC process is ‘anti-Hindu’ This assumption, which has become a talking point of the Trinamool Congress that is fighting hard to contain the BJP’s march in West Bengal, is based on the …

Those out of Assam NRC will continue to vote till they exhaust legal remedies: EC
5 years, 3 months ago

Those out of Assam NRC will continue to vote till they exhaust legal remedies: EC

India TV News  

Days after the Union Home Ministry clarified that those left out of the National Register of Citizens in Assam will continue to enjoy all rights of a citizen till they exhaust all legal remedies, the Election Commission has decided that such people will continue to be voters if their names exist in the electoral rolls of the state. A senior …

Assam govt issues notice to set up 200 additional Foreigner Tribunals in 33 districts for hearing appeals of those excluded from final NRC
5 years, 3 months ago

Assam govt issues notice to set up 200 additional Foreigner Tribunals in 33 districts for hearing appeals of those excluded from final NRC

Firstpost  

The Assam government has issued a notification setting up 200 more appellate Foreigner Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens Guwahati: The Assam government has issued a notification setting up 200 more appellate Foreigner Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens. The appeal against …

National Register of Citizens in Assam: Trauma of exclusion
5 years, 3 months ago

National Register of Citizens in Assam: Trauma of exclusion

The Hindu  

FOURTEEN years after New Delhi gave its commitment to update the National Register of Citizens in Assam, the State has got the final list of the updated register. The Narendra Modi government has promised to bring the Citizenship Bill to grant citizenship to Hindu and other non-Muslim migrants among those excluded from the final NRC list in Assam. The BJP …

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