National Register Citizens

Status of the stateless

Status of the stateless

August 31, 2019

With the release of the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, around 1.9 million residents have been excluded. The fate of these stateless people is uncertain as the government will find that it may have opened the pandora’s box through this exercise.

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National Register Citizens process based on ‘linguistic discrimination’

National Register Citizens process based on ‘linguistic discrimination’

July 19, 2018

The NRC update process is “biased” against Bangla- speaking Muslims and Hindus in Assam, claims a civil society fact finding team. Nearly 1, 25,000 people have been presumed as ‘D-Voters’.

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