The National Register of Citizens (NRC)
❑❑❑❑About NRC ❑❑ The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a register containing names of all genuine Indian citizens. At present, only Assam has such a register. The exercise may be extended to other states as well. Nagaland is already creating a similar database known as the Register of Indigenous(দেশীয়) Inhabitants(বাসিন্দা). The Centre is planning to create a National Population Register (NPR), which will contain demographic and biometric details of citizens. What is NRC in Assam? The NRC in Assam is basically a list of Indian citizens living in the state. The citizens register sets out to identify foreign nationals in the state that borders Bangladesh. The process to update the register began following a Supreme Court order in 2013, with the state’s nearly 33 million people having to prove that they were Indian nationals prior to March 24, ...