If no nationwide NRC then Assam may approach Supreme Court seeking re-verification: Himanta
সারা দেশে এনআরসি না হলে রি-ভেরিফিকেশনের জন্য সুপ্রিম কোর্টে যাবে সরকার : হিমন্ত

December 23: Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said, ““We are unhappy with the present NRC. Issue of Assam NRC is always different and distinct from national NRC. If there is no national NRC, Assam NRC should be fool-proof.”

Quoting Minister Sarma, Hindustan Times reported, “Our main idea is to seek 20% re-verification in the border districts. If SC orders Assam government to do that, then we will do that and give report to court. If huge scale anomaly is detected in that re-verification, our next prayer would be to seek complete re-verification.”

Defending Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion during an election rally in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi that there are no Detention Centres in Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma said “There is no detention centre outside Assam. The one in Assam has been set up under directions of Gauhati High Court. So the PM is correct in saying that Centre has not started any detention centre.”

At present, Assam has six detention centres that are housed inside the district jails. On 27 November 2019, the Government disclosed that 988 people were housed in six detention centres in Assam. The existing centres are currently being run from the district jail premises at Dibrugarh, Silchar, Tezpur, Jorhat, Kokrajhar and Goalpara. Moreover, Goalpara district in Assam will be home to the country’s biggest detention centre and is being constructed on 28,800 sq ft of land that will accommodate foreign convicts, people declared ‘foreigners’ and will be operational by early 2020.