NRC Expansion For One Month As Government Failure To Publish Deadline On July 1

Mumbai: The Center has extended the counting work for the National Register Citizens (NRC) in Assam for one month. This decision comes in the wake of the failure of the government to complete the work and publish the list on July 1.

In a notification, the Registrar General of India said that the decision has been taken in the form of an exercise to calculate citizens in NRC, the list of residents of Assam cannot be completed within the specified date of June 30.

“And while, in Assam state, the said calculation cannot be completed within the specified period … The Center has considered it necessary and expedient in public interest to fulfil the said calculation in relation to the updation of the citizens of the National Register. ” Until the 31st day of July 1951, 2019, “Notification was read by Registrar General of Citizen Registration Vivek Joshi.

This kind of first notification was released in 2013 with a three-year deadline to complete the NRC process. There have been six extensions since then.

There was a dispute about the NRC draft when it was published on July 30 last year on the boycott of 40.7 lakh people. Of the total 3.29 applications, there were 2.9 crore names in the draft NRC. The names of more than one lakh people were excluded from a list published last month.

In the meantime, Joshi also announced that from 12th August to 30th September, pre-examination of census 2021 will be done across the country. For the snowy areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date of the census is October 1, 2020, whereas the rest of the country is for 1 March 2021.

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