{"id":89236,"date":"2019-08-29T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:38:33","slug":"1971-as-nrc-base-year-cannot-protect-assams-indigenous-says-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/1971-as-nrc-base-year-cannot-protect-assams-indigenous-says-ngo\/","title":{"rendered":"1971 as NRC base year cannot protect Assam\u2019s indigenous, says NGO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha (ASM), which is an\numbrella organisation of several indigenous ethnic organisations, has said that\nNational Register of Citizens (NRC) cannot protect the indigenous people of the\nState if 1971 remains the base year for identifying foreigners.<\/li><li>The organization had challenged the\nconstitutional validity of March 25, 1971 as the base year for identifying\nforeigners. It has demanded that 1951 be set as the base year for determining\ncitizenship.<\/li><li>Citizenship Act, 1955- dealing with acquisition\nand loss of citizenship in India- was amended in 1985 to incorporate Section\n6A. This section fixes March 25, 1971 as the cut-off date for granting\ncitizenship to Bangladeshi migrants in Assam. This was one in accordance to the\nAssam accord. While for rest of India the date of detection and deportation of\nforeigners in 1951. <\/li><li>Assam Accord is a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS)\nsigned between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of\nthe Assam Movement- a movement against illegal immigrants in Assam.<\/li><li>The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a\nregister which contains the name of all citizens of India residing in Assam. The\nprocess of NRC update in Assam has been taken up as per a Supreme Court order\nin 2013. The deadline of submitting the final NRC is August 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha (ASM), which is an umbrella organisation of several indigenous ethnic organisations, has said that National Register of Citizens (NRC) cannot protect the indigenous people of the State if 1971 remains the base year for identifying foreigners. The organization had challenged the constitutional validity of March 25, 1971 as the base year for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/1971-as-nrc-base-year-cannot-protect-assams-indigenous-says-ngo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1971 as NRC base year cannot protect Assam\u2019s indigenous, says NGO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6434],"class_list":["post-89236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-national-register-for-citizens","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704838038},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}