Paridhi Arya
Published on April 21, 2022 at 16:32 IST
The decision taken by the Cabinet of Assam that they go to Supreme Court to make sure that people whom Biometrics were taken by Centre at the time of updating National Register of Citizens (NRC) are locked and so they cannot get their Aadhar Cards.
“State government approved filing of an interlocutory application in Supreme Court to ensure residents of Assam (both whose names are in NRC and those left out) are able to get their Aadhaar cards,” parliamentary affairs and information minister Pijush Hazarika said.
There are 2.8 million people under a question that whether they are Citizen of India or not.
On August 31, 2019 final list released but there are 1.9 million people excluded from it and now these people are not getting Aadhar Card being their Biometrics are locked.
Sushmita Dev member of Rajya Sabha from Trinamool Congress had already filed Public Interest Litigation to release the biometrics of these 830,000 people.
“Nearly 2.8 million people from Assam have not been able to get their Aadhaar cards as their biometrics is locked. Due to this, these people are not able to avail benefits of many States as well as Central Government Schemes. Since Aadhaar is not a citizenship document, we feel that these people need to get it, whether their names are in the National Register of Citizens or not,” said Hazarika.
“Our Government as well as many organisations in Assam have refused to accept the National Register of Citizens list (due to alleged flaws in inclusion and exclusion of names). A meeting held with these groups unanimously agreed National Register of Citizens shouldn’t determine who should get Aadhaar card or not. Hence, we decided to approach Supreme Court so that these people get Aadhaar and are able to get Benefit of Schemes,” he added.
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