NRC: DC Cachar inspects hearing of claimants at NSK-1 at Udharbond

February 16: Hearing of 36 lakh applications of those people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has begun on February 15 next. The first 15 days will be document verification as the 36 lakh people have submitted fresh documents. A total of 3500 officers has been earmarked for the purpose.

Inspected the hearing of Claimants at NRC Nsk-1 at GP office,Udharbond. #NRCUdharbond pic.twitter.com/aOHGaVGuVT

— Cachar District (@DistrictCachar) February 16, 2019

The first round of hearings is scheduled to take place from February 15th to 28th, 2019 at around 1,436 venues. The second phase of hearings is likely to start from March 1st, 2019. In this connection, Laya Madduri, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar went personally at NSK-1 in Gaon Panchayat office at Udharbond and inspected the proceedings.

As per the verdict of Supreme Court, the entire process of NRC is to be completed by 31 July, 2019. Fresh application was moved in the apex court to extend the deadline for declaration of NRC due to the ensuing parliamentary elections. However, the court in its hearing on 5 February refused to extend the deadline for publication of the final NRC.

As such, the state office of the NRC Coordinator has chalked out a blueprint wherein they have planned to complete the process of hearing and verification of the claims and objections by June 15. Now if they could do so, then they could go in for a quality check in the remaining 45 days.

It needs mention here that the second and final draft of NRC on July 30^th , 2018. 2,89, 83,677 persons were found eligible out of 3,29,91,384 applicants in the final draft of the NRC. Of these, 37,59,630 names have been rejected and the remaining 2,48,077 are on hold.