Assam on edge as final NRC draft list set to be published

July 30, 2018 07:46

Authorities in India are set to announce the final draft list of citizens in Assam, amid fear tens of thousands of Bengali-origin Muslims might be excluded from the document.

The National Register of Citizens is being updated after nearly seven decades as part of a campaign to identify undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh, but critics say those not finding their names in the list might be effectively rendered stateless.

The NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela said that the list will be published at around 10 am on Monday.

The final list will decide the fate of the 13.9 million people not included in the first draft that was published on December 31 last year -- that first list designated some 19 million people, out of Assam's 32.9 million population, as legal citizens.

The country's Supreme Court - which is supervising the entire process - had initially set June 30 as the deadline to publish the final list. But this was postponed to July 30, as the massive exercise could not be completed.

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