The Final NRC is Here, Check it Out Now

Guwahati, August 31, 2019:

The long-awaited final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has been finally released. The draft was made available at 10 am in the morning today.

The Assam NRC will identify the bonafide citizens of the state and will nearly seal the fate of more than 41 lakh people who had found their names missing from the final draft of the National Register of Citizens that was published last year.

About the NRC:

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of genuine Indian citizens. The only time the NRC was published was in 1951. That NRC was based on the Census of 1951.

The 1951 National Register of Citizens is now being updated in Assam to identify the illegal foreigners who may be residing in the state.

Updation of the NRC was promised by the Govt of India under the Assam Accord signed in 1985. However, the process to update the NRC stagnated for years, until the Supreme Court took up the matter in 2013 and a set a deadline for published an updated National Register of Citizens for Assam.

How to Check Your Name:

The final list will be published online on the official website of Assam NRC nrcassam.nic.in – but you can also check them by visiting your respective NRC Sewa Kendra. Apart from the official website, you can also check your names on assam.mygov.in.

It may be mentioned here that as many as 40 lakh applicants found their names excluded, out of the 3.29 crore registered names in the final draft. A total of 36.2 lakh had claimed inclusion in the final draft of Assam NRC.

To check the result online, first, one has to visit the official site nrcassam.nic.in. Then, one must click on the tab which says ‘complete draft NRC is now active’.

Then, a person must enter the ARN to check the name (the ARN number is printed on the front page of your NRC form).

Then, the applicant must enter the CAPTCHA code and hit on search.

The name of the person, if included in the list, would be displayed on the screen.

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