
Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Difficulty of Proving Your Citizenship
The growing use of electronic technologies has actually increased the need for paper documents and underlined their importance in people's lives legacy data are at the heart of the process to be included in the NRC one has to identify an ancestor whose name appears in either the NRC of 1951 or a pre-1971 electoral role. The response from them has been poor and tardy some states responded to fewer than 1% of the requests more than 100,000 requests for legacy verification were made to the West Bengal government but the NRC authorities received responses only in 6.5% of the request stop quote.
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