Full Form of NRC

Full form of NRC is National Register of Citizens

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a register containing authority of all genuine Indian citizens. At present, only Assam has such a register.  

This exercise may be extended to other states as well. Nagaland is already creating a similar database known as the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants. The Centre is planning to create a National Population Register (NPR), which contains a demographic and biometric detail of citizens. 

What is NRC in Assam? 

The NRC in Assam is basically a scroll of Indian civilians living in the state. The citizen’s register sets out to identify illegal inhabitants from Bangladesh and other nearby countries. 

The process to update the rosters began following a Supreme Court order in 2013, with the state’s nearly 33 million tribe owning to prove that they were Indian nationals prior to March 24, 1971.

The updated final NRC was released on August 31, 2019 with over 1.9 million applicants failing to make it to the list. 

How does one prove citizenship? 

In Assam, one of the basic criteria was that the names of applicant's family part should either be in the first NRC prepared in 1951 or in the electoral rolls up to March 24, 1971.  

Other than that, applicants also had the alternatives to present documents such as refugee registration certificate, birth certificate, LIC policy, world and tenancy records, citizenship certificate,  passport,  government issued licence or certificate, bank/post legislature accounts, permanent residential certificate, rule usage certificate, educational license and court records.