Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says anyone who did not apply for NRC in 2014 is not a citizen of Assam.
GUWAHATI: Applicants for Aadhaar Card in Assam have to undergo rigorous scrutiny and it will be issued only after a nod from the state government. This was announced by the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, September 7.
The chief minister said that in the next 10-days, the state government will issue a notification stating that henceforth adults who apply for Aadhaar card will have to provide their NRC application number.
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“Regardless of whether the name was listed in the NRC, anyone who did not apply for NRC in 2014 is not a citizen of Assam,” said the chief minister adding that the children who are small now will not be asked for it, but any adult applying for Aadhaar card will have to provide the NRC application number.
Those who didn’t apply for NRC will not get the Aadhaar card. This, he said, is in the wake of the office of the Registrar General of India (RGI), under the Union ministry of home affairs, asking the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to release the locked biometrics of 9,35,682 residents of Assam.
He also revealed that in some districts of Assam, the percentage of Aadhar card holders is more than the total population of the respective districts. For instance, in Barpeta 103.74% of the population has the cards, Dhubri 103.48% , Morigaon 101.76% and Nagaon 101%.
He said that these numbers show that some people might have illegally got Aadhaar cards without being a citizen of Assam.
