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Explained: Who are the 19 lakh excluded from Assam NRC, and what next for them? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Who are the 19 lakh excluded from Assam NRC, and what next for them? | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: August 31, 2019 2:44:12 pm



Explained: Who are the 19 lakh excluded from Assam NRC, and what next for them?

Assam NRC Explained: Witness to decades of migration from Bangladesh — formerly East Bengal and then East Pakistan — Assam already has an NRC, which was published in 1951 on the basis of that year’s Census.

Explained: Who are the 19 lakh excluded from Assam NRC, what next for them?
Assam NRC published: An officer arranges documents at an NRC centre on in Gauhati on Friday, August 30, 2019. (AP Photo: Anupam Nath)


On Saturday, the final draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam listed 3.11 crore citizens. These were out of 3.30 crore applicants for inclusion. Who are the 19 lakh applicants who were not included in the NRC, and where do they go from here?

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