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SC restricts NRC coordinator from talking to media without approval
Why it is in news?
- A bench of SC termed as "most unfortunate" the statements made by Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) coordinator to media on the issue of dealing with claims and objections of those who have been left out in the draft NRC.
- Questioning the authority of the officials the bench reprimanded them and restrained them from going to media in future on the NRC issue.
Data about NRC
- The bench also said that it had asked the Centre to formulate standard operating procedures to deal with the claims and objections of those who have been left out in the draft NRC
- It also accused the officials of making statements on modalities which squarely fell in its domain.
- The apex court had on 31 July said that there will be no coercive action by authorities against over 40 lakh people whose names do not figure in Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC) and observed that it was merely a draft.
- The top court had asked the Centre to formulate modalities and the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) including timelines for deciding claims and objections arising out of the publication of the draft NRC.
- The NRC report said that out of 3.29 crore people names of 2.89 crore have been included in the draft NRC.
- It further said that the names of 40,70,707 people do not figure in the list. Of the these, 37,59,630 names have been rejected and the remaining 2,48,077 are on hold.
NRC
- The first draft of the NRC for Assam was published on 31 December according to the top court's direction. Names of 1.9 crore people out of the 3.29 crore applicants were incorporated.
- Assam, which had faced an influx of people from Bangladesh since the early 20th century, is the only state having an NRC, which was first prepared in 1951.
- The top court, which is monitoring the NRC work had earlier said that the claims of those citizens, whose names do not figure in the draft NRC for Assam published by December 31 last year would be scrutinised and included in the subsequent list if found genuine.a