TheAssamgovernment on Wednesday told Gauhati during a hearing of a batch of PILs on the eviction drive carried out in Sipajhar in Assam’s Darrang district in September that the only those evicted families who have their names in the National Register of Citizenship (NRC) will be rehabilitated.
One condition is whether the families are truly landless and the other is if they are erosion-affected,” he said, adding that the petitioner will file a rejoinder raising objection to the condition of the inclusion of names in NRC for rehabilitation. The NRC, which is unique to Assam in the entire country, was first made in 1951, which was updated and published in 2019 but is yet to get the apporoval from theSupreme Courtor the Registrar General of India.
He also said the state told the court that it would not take any coercive action against any person it seeks to evict, unless it is compelled to do so.