Assam NRC Excluded Persons Will Continue To Enjoy Rights Of Citizens : Union Home Ministry

To clear the uncertainty over the fate of over 19 lakh persons excluded from the National Register of Citizens published for Assam on August 31, the Ministry of Home Affairs has said that they will continue to enjoy all rights like any other citizen.

"Persons left out of #NRCFinalList NOT to be detained under any circumstance till they exhaust all remedies avl under law. Such persons to continue to enjoy all rights as earlier, like any other citizen, eg. right to employment, education, property etc (sic)", said the Spokesperson of Ministry of Home Affairs in a tweet from the official handle.

Those left out from the NRC can appeal to the Foreigners Tribunal within 120 days from August 31. To facilitate appeal, 200 new Tribunals in addition to the existing 100 will be created, added the Spokesperson.

The State Government has made necessary arrangements for providing legal aid to the excluded persons through District Legal Services Authorities, the tweet said.

The final NRC list was prepared and published under the monitoring of the Supreme Court since 2014.

As per a press release by the NRC Co-ordinator Prateek Hajela, the final list has excluded over 19 lakh persons (19,06,657) out of 3.3 crore applicants. The draft list published last year had nearly 40 lakh exclusions.