India excludes 4m people from draft citizens list in Assam

Send
Reuters
Published : 11:24, Jul 30, 2018 | Updated : 11:24, Jul 30, 2018

Caption: Villagers wait outside the National Register of Citizens (NRC) centre to get their documents verified by government officials, at Mayong Village in Morigaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India recently. ReutersIndia’s registrar general said on Monday that 4,007,707 people had been excluded from a draft national register of citizens in the border state of Assam, in a move that has raised fears for the future of people in the region.
Sailesh, the registrar general and census commissioner of India, said those excluded from the list would not be deported from the country and would have a chance to file an appeal.
More than 30 million had provided documents to prove their citizenship.

/ssz/up-ni/
Top