New Delhi, Dec 28: The Government on Thursday gave six month extension to complete the ongoing exercise for updating the National Register of Citizen(NRC) in Assam by June 30 next year, a notification from the Registrar General of India said here.
The last date for updating the NRC was December 31, 2018.
“The decision has been taken as the exercise to enumerate citizens in the NRC, a list of Assam’s residents, could not be completed within the specified date of December 31, 2018”, a Government source said.
“The central government has considered it necessary and expedient in the public interest to complete the said enumeration in connection with the updation of the National Register of Citizens, 1951, by June 30 , 2019,” the notification further said.
“Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions of sub-rule (3) of rule 4A of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 and in supersession of the notification number SO715(E), dated the July 30, 2018, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Registrar General of Citizen Registration, hereby, notifies that the enumeration in connection with the updation of the National Register of Citizens, 1951, in respect of the State of Assam shall be completed within the period ending on the 30th day of June, 2019,” the notification added.
This is the sixth times that Government has given extension to complete the process.
The Centre had issued the first notification on December 6, 2013, setting a deadline of three years for completion of the entire NRC process in Assam.
The draft NRC was published on July 30 and included the names of 29 million people out of total 32.9 million applications. There has been a huge controversy over the exclusion of 4 million people from the draft NRC in the state.
The NRC process is aimed at identifying illegal immigrants in the state of Assam to identify the illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh.
