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- The first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam has listed 19 million people out of the 32.9 million applicants as legal Indian citizens.
- Assam is the only State that had prepared an NRC in 1951.
- It has also now become the first State to get the first draft of its own updated NRC.
- The Register is meant to establish the credentials of a bona fide citizen as distinguished from a foreigner.
- This is to detect Bangladeshi migrants who may have illegally entered Assam after the midnight of March 24, 1971.
- This cut-off date was originally agreed to in the 1985 Assam Accord.
- Updating of NRC 1951 is one of the commitment of Assam as per Assam Accord.
- A six-year agitation demanding identification and deportation of illegal immigrants was launched by the All Assam Students’ Union in 1979.
- It culminated with the signing of the Assam Accord on August 15, 1985, in the presence of the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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