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Deadline approaching: What it is to be a name on NRC list — or off it | North East India News, The Indian Express

Deadline approaching: What it is to be a name on NRC list — or off it | North East India News, The Indian Express

Written by Abhishek SahaTora Agarwala |Dhubri, Hojai |Updated: August 25, 2019 5:23:39 pm

Deadline approaching: What it is to be a name on NRC list — or off it

The fate of lakhs of people in Assam hinges on the final NRC that will be out on August 31. As politics over the list builds up, Abhishek Saha visits Hojai, the district with the highest exclusion rate according to government data from the draft NRC, and Tora Agarwala visits Dhubri, the Muslim-majority border district with the lowest exclusion rate, to tell stories of what it is to be a name on a list — or off it .



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At her home in Dhubri town, Ayesha Bewi says she never applied to the NRC. (Express Photo by Tora Agarwala)


The fate of lakhs of people in Assam hinges on the final NRC that will be out on August 31. As politics over the list builds up, Abhishek Saha visits Hojai, the district with the highest exclusion rate according to government data from the draft NRC, and Tora Agarwala visits Dhubri, the Muslim-majority border district with the lowest exclusion rate, to tell stories of what it is to be a name on a list — or off it .

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