NRC

NRC

Subject : Governance

Context : Assam State National Register of Citizens (NRC) Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive re-verification of the draft NRC, saying it was needed in view of the serious irregularities detected in the final draft as well as the supplementary list.

Concept :

About NRC

• The NRC is the list of Indian citizens and was prepared in 1951, following the census of 1951.
• The process of NRC update was taken up in Assam as per a Supreme Court order in 2013.
• In order to wean out cases of illegal migration from Bangladesh and other adjoining areas, NRC updation was carried out under The Citizenship Act, 1955, and according to rules framed in the Assam Accord.
• It set March 25, 1971, as the cut-off date for the deportation of illegal migrants.
• Since the cut-off date prescribed under articles 5 and 6 of the Constitution was July 19, 1949 – to give force to the new date, an amendment was made to the Citizenship Act, 1955, and a new section was introduced.
• It was made applicable only to Assam.