Documents you may need, if there’s NRC nationwide

Here’s a list of documents you may have to furnish if an NRC is carried out nationwide, if Assam is the model.

Unlike the Census, the NRC update exercise in Assam was carried out by giving an individual the option to be included.

An applicant had the choice of picking any one of the documents listed under two heads. The 14 documents mentioned in List A were:

•  Electoral roll(s) up to March 24 (midnight), 1971
•  Land and tenancy records
•  Citizenship certificate
•  Permanent residential certificate
•  Refugee registration certificate
•  Any government issued license/certificate
•  Government service/ employment certificate
•  Bank or post office accounts
•  Birth certificate
•  State educational board or university educational certificate
•  Court records/processes
•  Passport
•  Any LIC policy

Since the citizenship cut-off date in Assam is midnight of March 24, 1971, all these documents could not be from a date later than that. This meant an Assam resident who didn’t have any 1971 documents that mention her name can show any one of the documents named in this list if it mentions her father or grandfather. But such applicants then had to establish their link with their father/grandfather by furnishing one more document to be picked from List B, which included eight options:

•  Birth certificate
•  Land document
•  Board/university certificate
•  Bank/LIC/post office records
•  Circle officer/gaon panchayat secretary certificate in case of married women
•  Electoral roll
•  Ration card
•  Any other legally acceptable document

In the case of women married to other places, and have no documents that they could pick from list B to establish their family link, two documents were to be allowed to them. They were:

• Circle officer or gaon panchayat secretary certificate which can be furnished as a supporting document by a woman migrating after marriage.
• It need not be on or before the 1971 date.
• A ration card issued on or before the 1971 date.