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GUWAHATI: The Registrar General of India on Wednesday published an additional draft list containing names of 1,02,462 people persons, who were included in final draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) published last year but were subsequently found to be ineligible.

Of more than 3 crore people who had applied for inclusion of their names in the NRC, 40 lakh did not make it in the final draft NRC that was published on July 30 last year. With the additional exclusion draft list published on Wednesday, the total number of excluded people now stands at more than 41 lakh.

An exercise to update the NRC, unique to Assam, to filter out illegal non-nationals residing in the state, has been going on for about four years now.

These excluded people can now file claims with NRC authorities . The final list will be published on July 30 next.

These persons, whose names have been excluded now, include persons who were found to be declared foreigners or doubtful voters or having pending cases with Foreigners’ Tribunals during verification process after the final draft was published last July 30 last year.

In a press release, the state NRC coordinator said, "The Additional Draft Exclusion List will not contain the results of claimants and objectees appearing for hearings held for disposal of Claims and Objections during the period 15th February 2019 to 26th June, 2019. The results of those hearings will be published only in the Final NRC to be published on 31st July 2019.”

Those who have been excluded will also be informed individually through Letters of Information (LOI) to be delivered at their residential addresses along with the reason of exclusion and they will have the opportunity to file their claims which will be disposed through a hearing by a disposing officer, the coordinator stated.

The NRC final draft list released in July last year had the names of 40 lakh people missing. Now, the process of claims and objections is being executed by the authorities.



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