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New rules to allow appeals on NRC
Why it is in news?
- The Centre is all set to amend the rules that would enable residents whose names don’t feature in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to file an appeal before the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam.
- Home Ministry official explained that amendments will be made to the rules in the Foreigners Tribunal Order, 1964 as under the existing law only State or Police could move the Tribunal against a person suspected to be illegally staying in Assam.
- As the NRC process is in an advanced stage we have to think of people whose names don’t appear even in the final list.
- Remedies will have to be extended to such people.
- Under the changed rules, such subjects could themselves move the Foreigners Tribunals and present their case that they are not staying illegally
Deadline nears
- As per directions of the Supreme Court, the Registrar General of India (RGI) is to publish the final draft list on July 30 to segregate Indian citizens living in Assam from those who had illegally entered the State from Bangladesh after March 25, 1971.
- The first draft containing the names of 1.9 crore out of 3.29 crore applicants was published on December 31 last year.
Foreigners Tribunal
- Exclusion from the final NRC does not mean automatic declaration of anyone as foreigner and once the final document is published if someone is dissatisfied he or she can always go to a Foreigners Tribunal in the State to get justice.
- There are unnecessary misgivings about the NRC and people are trying to fan rumours when the entire exercise is being monitored by the Supreme Court.
- No one should have any apprehension about the exercise and added that adequate central paramilitary forces were dispatched to Assam to assist the State administration to deal with any law-and-order situation.
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