Am I Unnecessarily Fearing the Worst From Assam NRC?
Tridip K Mandal
Updated: 03.01.18
On 27 December, I had written about how my wife’s name may not figure in the first list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam because of the lack of a proper legacy record.
I was pretty sure that my name, along with my mother’s and daughter’s, would feature in the first draft of NRC.
But on 1 January, 2018 when the list was released, I was in for a surprise – none of our names were there, even though we had all provided valid legacy documents. My father’s name was there in the 1966 voters’ list.
Here’s a recap of how the first day of 2018 went for me.
I was one among the 3.29 crore people who had to prove their Indian citizenship, so right from the morning I was trying to log onto the various government websites where the NRC list could be viewed. These are – www.assam.gov.in, www.nrcassam.nic.in and www.assam.mygov.in.