NRC- THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF CITIZENS OF INDIA.
This bill has made Assam as war zone. so, let’s study what is NRC ?. ABOUT NRC It is a register maintained by the Government of India containing names & certain relevant information for the identification of Indian citizens of the Assam state. One special thing is that this particular bill was initially made for Assam state. but on 20th November 2019 hon. home minister Amit shah Ji declared in parliament that the register will be extended to the whole country. However, due to an amendment carried out in the Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, the State Register of Citizens for the state of Assam, which forms a part of the National Register of Citizens has also been held to be legal to contain the names of all persons, whose names appeared at least in any of the Electoral Rolls published for any of the then assembly constituencies within the territorial limits of the present-day state of Assam up to midnight of 24 March 1971 and also of descendants of such persons present