Assam, the Additional NRC Draft Exclusion list published today consisting of 1,02,462 persons. The official sources said that the persons whose names appear in the Additional Draft Exclusion List are those persons whose names are included in the Draft NRC published on July last year but have been subsequently found ineligible due to various reasons. 

Those people who have been excluded will be informed individually through letters. They will be given the opportunity to file their claims which will be disposed of through a hearing by a Disposing Officer.

All the claims will be disposed of before the publication of the Final NRC on 31st of July. 

Over one lakh people who have been excluded will be informed individually through Letters of Information to be delivered at their residence along with the reason of exclusion. The hearings will start on 5th of July.

The entire NRC process is being carried out in Assam under the monitoring of the Supreme Court. The NRC authority announced, all genuine Indian citizens as the per cut of date of midnight of 24th March 1971 will be included in the Final NRC.  However, the name of 40 lakh people did not appear in the NRC draft list till 30th July last year.