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NRC for Tripura
Why is it in news?
- The Supreme Court issued a notice to the centre and the Election Commission of India on a plea seeking that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) be updated to include Tripura.
- The plea by the Tripura People’s Front was heard by a three-judge bench
- SC tagged the case to be heard along with a similar case.
- The petition emphasized the need for updating the NRC for Tripura
- It says that it was necessary to identify and deport illegal immigrants living in the state.
- The petitioners prayed for a direction from the court to authorities concerned to update the NRC.
- They also sought fencing of the Tripura-Bangladesh border to prevent influx of illegal immigrants.
NRC
- The NRC is a list of Indian citizens of Assam. It was prepared in 1951, following the census of that year.
- The NRC in Assam was updated under the Citizenship Act, 1955, and according to the rules framed in the Assam Accord, to wean out illegal migrants from Bangladesh following a Supreme Court order of 2013.
- The process of filing claims and objections with regard to the NRC released by Assam was flagged off on 25 September and will continue till 23 November.
- About 28.9 million of the 32.9 million applicants were included in the final draft of the NRC released on 30 July.
- People who had been excluded from the final draft, including 248,000 classified as “doubtful voters”, can file their claims for inclusion in the NRC.
Source
The Hindu