NRC rejection slips to be issued soon:

Context:

The Centre has told the Assam government that “rejection slips” should be issued immediately to those excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) which was published in 2019.

Background:

More than 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants in Assam were left out of the final register that took five years to compile and cost ?1,220 crore.

About NRC:

=> At its core, the NRC is an official record of those who are legal Indian citizens. It includes demographic information about all those individuals who qualify as citizens of India as per the Citizenship Act, 1955.

=> The register was first prepared after the 1951 Census of India and since then it has not been updated until recently.

=> So far, such a database has only been maintained for the state of Assam.

Why was NRC updated for Assam?

In 2014, the SC ordered the updation of the NRC, in accordance with Citizenship Act, 1955 and Citizenship Rules, 2003 in all parts of Assam. The process officially started in 2015.