The Supreme Court on September 19, 2018 ordered resumption of filing of claims and objections by around 40 lakh people who were left out in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) of Assam.
A bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi amd R F Nariman said the process of filing claims and objections by the people who have been left out will commence on September 25, 2018 and will remain open for the next 60 days.
The apex court granted this second opportunity to the citizens keeping in mind the "magnitude" of the issue.
The bench will now hear the matter on October 23, 2018 and has sought the view of Prateek Hajela, coordinator of Assam NRC on stance of the central government with regard to applicability and non-applicability of certain documents for inclusion of names in the NRC.
The draft Assam NRC was published in July 2018.
Assam NRC
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list containing names of Indian citizens of Assam. The first draft of the Assam NRC was published on December 31, 2017, incorporating the names of 1.9 crore people out of the total 3.29 crore applicants. The second and final draft of Assam NRC was published on July 30, 2018, incorporating 2,89,83,677 names.
| Assam NRC: Timeline | |
| 1951 | First-ever NRC of India published |
| 1979 | Anti-foreigners’ movement started in Assam |
| January 1980 | AASU submitted the first memorandum demanding updating of NRC |
| August 14, 1985 | Historic Assam Accord was signed |
| 1990 | AASU submitted modalities to update NRC to Centre as well State Government |
| 1999 | Centre took the first formal decision to update the NRC as per the Assam Accord |
| 2005 | In the presence of then PM Manmohan Singh, the resolution was adopted to update the NRC within September 2007 |
| 2009 | Assam Public Work, an NGO filed a case in Supreme Court claiming that 41 lakh foreigners were included in the electoral rolls of Assam |
| April 2010 | Then Union Home Secretary held a tripartite meeting to conduct a pilot project to update NRC in Barpeta and Chaygaon revenue circles |
| July 2010 | Chaygaon pilot project was successful; however, violence halted the Barpeta project. |
| 2010 onwards | After Barpeta violence, AASU and 26 other ethnic organisations started joint movement for NRC update |
| 2015 | NRC authorities were given the deadline of December 31, 2015 to complete the NRC update |
| December 31, 2015 | Deadline set by SC to publish the NRC was missed and since then the apex Court has been constantly monitoring the update |
| Mid 2017 | Supreme Court had set December 31, 2017 deadline for publication of draft NRC |
| December 31, 2017 | First draft of the NRC for Assam was published |
| July 30, 2018 | Second and final draft of the state’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published
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| August 1, 2018 | Supreme Court ruled that the Assam NRC was only a draft, and hence it cannot be the basis of any action by any authority against anyone. |
| August 1, 2018 | The Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat clarified that the electoral roll is governed by a separate law and exclusion from the final NRC would not mean “automatic removal” from Assam’s voters’ list. |
| August 17, 2018 | The Supreme Court asked the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) coordinator to submit the data of district-wise percentage of the population excluded from the NRC draft in the state. |
| September 5, 2018 | Supreme court had ordered that any one of the 10 of a total 15 documents provided in List-A of the NRC claim form can be used by the claimants to prove legacy. |
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