The Assam government has published the part draft of the much-awaited National Register of Citizens (NRC) which includes names of 1.9 crore people of total 3.29 crore applicants in the state, an official said, reports IANS.
Registrar General of India (RGI), Sailesh said this while addressing a press conference at 11.45 pm on Sunday and added that the names of people who are not in the draft list published are at various stages of verification.
The status of inclusion of names can be checked in the websites—www.nrcassam.nic.in, www.assam.gov.in, www.assam.mygov.in and www.homeandpolitical.assam.gov.in, the office of the state coordinator of National Registration (NRC) posted on its official Twitter page, according to IANS.
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The RGI said the complete NRC will be published within this year.
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He said this is only the part draft of the NRC and that there is no need to worry if anyone's name has not been included in the part draft that has been published.
"It only means that his or her name is at some stage of verification," he added.
The NRC authorities had received applications submitted by 3.29 crore people, accompanied by six crore documents, of the state for inclusion of heir names in the NRC.
NRC state coordinator Prateek Hajela said those people whose names have been excluded in the first list need not worry, reports PTI.
"It is a tedious process to verify the names. So there is a possibility that some names within a single family may not be there in the first draft," said Hajela.
"There is no need to panic as rest of the documents are under verification," he added, according to PTI.
Assam, which faced influx from Bangladesh since the early 20th century, is the only state having an NRC, first prepared in 1951.
The Supreme Court, which is monitoring the entire process, had ordered that the first draft of the NRC be published by December 31 after completing the scrutiny of over two crore claims along with that of around 38 lakh people whose documents were suspect, according to PTI.
(With agency inputs)
