All the data related to Assam’s National Register of Citizens has disappeared from the official website, PTI reported on Tuesday. The final...
All the data related to Assam’s National Register of Citizens has disappeared from the official website, PTI reported on Tuesday. The final NRC list – an exercise to update the citizens’ database – for Assam was published on August 31, 2019. It excluded over 19 lakh people or around 6% of the population.
The complete detail of exclusion and inclusion of bonafide Indian citizens in the NRC was uploaded on its official website, www.nrcassam.nic.in, in October 2019 as per a Supreme Court order. However, if someone clicks on “Result for all NRC applicants as per Draft NRC & Supplementary list of Inclusion and Exclusion (Final NRC)” on the website, only one message pops up: ‘This page can’t be reached”.
An unidentified official at the NRC office said the data were stored in cloud storage. “But, the service period of the cloud storage provided by Wipro expired and the subscription renewal was not done as there was no coordinator after the transfer of the former coordinator Prateek Hajela,” the official told The Times of India.
After Hajela was transferred, Hitesh Dev Sarma was appointed by the Assam government as the NRC state coordinator. “After the new coordinator has assumed charge, the renewal process is underway and the data should be online in few...
