Citizens for Justice and Peace
THE CITIZENSHIP CRISIS IN ASSAM
19 LAKHS
excluded from NRC
Widespread suspicion about who is and isn't a citizen, heightened by the exclusion of over 19 lakh people from the National Register of Citizens 2019, is fueling a humanitarian crisis in Assam
2.2 LAKHS Citizenship under suspicion
Another 2.2 million are similarly excluded from citizenship and its benefits because their cases are pending before Foreigners’ Tribunals (PFT) as they have been designated ‘D Voters’ or ‘Suspected Foreigners’, or because they have been ‘Declared Foreigners’ by FTs
69%
of those disenfranchised
are WOMEN
In Assam, being declared a foreigner or excluded from the list of citizens arbitrarily, has meant a civil death for millions of people, with repercussions often engulfing entire families. Since 2017, CJP’s Team Assam has worked in faraway villages and districts to provide real paralegal and legal aid as well as psychological assistance. Our district-level, legal team works on 25 Foreigner Tribunal cases month on month. This ground level data ensures informed interventions by CJP in our Constitutional Courts, the Guwahati High Court and the Supreme Court.
CJP's IMPACT
Helped fill over 12 lakh NRC forms
Over 50 persons released from Detention camps
Legal interventions in the courts
Paralegal assistance to almost 100 families each month
HELP US DO MORE
Detention camps in Assam still house a lot of innocent citizens. We have the skills necessary to fight for their bail. We will move the higher courts for those who are already out on temporary bail to ensure their permanent freedom. We intend to offer them and their families psychosocial and rehabilitation assistance once they are outside. We wish to extend our legal assistance to those negotiating the Kafkaesque Foreigner Tribunals. In addition, we intend to hold workshops where lawyers and paralegals can share their expertise and experiences. Our work must expand to more disrtricts in Assam.
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Citizenship in Assam:
A game of chance, of snakes and ladders
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NRC
National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list containing names of Indian citizens of Assam. The NRC was first prepared in 1951, after the Census of 1951. The NRC update of 2014-2016 across Assam includes the names of those persons (or their descendants) who appear in the NRC 1951, or in any of the Electoral Rolls up to the midnight of 24 March 1971 or in any one of the other admissible documents issued up to the midnight of 24 March 1971, which would prove their presence in Assam on or before 24 March 1971.
The NRC (1951) and the Electoral Rolls up to the midnight of 24 March 1971 together are collectively called Legacy data. It is being done with the compliance with section 3 and 6A of Citizenship Act of 1955; the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 (amended in year 2009); Modalities and Standard Operating Procedure and Judgement Order of Supreme Court. Entire process is being monitored by Supreme Court.
Supreme Court in its order dated 25/10/2013 held the presence of D-Voters in the state doubtful and mentioned that these voters could be included only if the NRC is updated or the Foreigner's Tribunal declare them to be Indian Citizens.
Stories from Assam
In Assam, being declared a foreigner or excluded from the list of citizens arbitrarily, has meant a civil death for 2.2 million people, with repercussions often engulfing entire families. Since 2017, CJP’s Assam Team has worked in faraway villages and districts to provide real paralegal and legal aid as well as psychological assistance.
To feel the depth of the despair and plight of these millions of fellow Indians, we need to have a face, a name, a sketch that tells each individual's unique story.
Travel with us in this journey through the pictorial and textual sketches of these people who live under constant threat and trepidation, clutching their documents even as nature’s floods often sweep them away.
