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"Applying a standard 5% error rate to India’s population, basic mistakes in the [NRC] process could leave at least 65 million people stateless nationwide, more than the population of Italy, according to Niranjan Sahoo [of @orfonline]"
@orfonline "The whole [NRC] exercise could cost as much as 700 billion rupees, roughly the size of the [Indian] annual federal health budget, he added." bloomberg.com/features/2020-…
@orfonline "Six months after Assam released its citizenship register, notices have yet to be sent to those who didn’t make the cut. That in turn delays the process for them to appeal the exclusion, according to a senior government official from the state"
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*This is for you Indians ST, SC, OBC & Muslims Plus, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Jain, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, etc*

There's a rough estimate that if #NRC will roll out across India then initially all 130 Crores of Indians will be affected.
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However, after all the tedious rounds of NRC verifications (Remember demonstration and add 20 times more hardness and everything into it), approx 17.5 crores (1750 million) of Non-Muslims (Mostly Hindus) or Almost 13-15% of Indians will lose their immediate nationality of India.
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[1] A recent article in @thewire_in on the NRC process in Assam made me pen some personal thoughts given the recent move to implement it across India. I am not Assamese but was born and brought up there. My father was an IPS officer of the 64 batch of that state's cadre. #NRC
@thewire_in [2] If I still lived in Assam, based on the list of documents required to be 'Indian', I would personally struggle to prove my citizenship and residency. The only document that we may have been able to show is my father's service record.
@thewire_in [3] For that as well, we probably would have had to run around government offices and call in favours. Keep in mind, we are not talking about a relatively poor/ unconnected family - as I mentioned, my father was in the govt and retired as the DGP of Assam.
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