'Low-key' release of NRC may belie hype
Although its nomenclature suggests otherwise, the list that will be published on Saturday will be only a supplementary one, showing the citizenship status of three categories of people. The first group would be those who had filed claims after being excluded from the two draft NRCs but cleared subsequent rounds of verification. The second category would be people against whom objections were filed but found to be in the clear after scrutiny. The third set of inclusions would be people who received summons from the NRC authorities for re-verification hearings and passed the test.
Officials said those who weren't summoned to any hearing after July 5 need not worry about their inclusion status. Unlike when the two draft NRCs were released in 2017 and 2018, the publication of the final citizenship rolls on Saturday would be through official social media handles, sources said. The comprehensive list containing the status of all 3,30,54,384 applicants will be available online only from September 7.
With anxiety in the air despite clarifications from the NRC authorities that Saturday won't be the end of the NRC process, 218 companies of central forces have been deployed and 14 districts identified as "sensitive". Police have stepped up vigil along the areas bordering Bangladesh and are also keeping a close watch on social media, DGP Kuladhar Saikia said.
"Security plans have been worked out individually for each district. In a previous assessment, we had identified around 1,200 of the 2,500 NRC centres as sensitive.The numbers keep changing, depending on the situation," he said.
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- ^ National Register of Citizens (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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