The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is an administrative-legal process initiated by the Indian government in the state of Assam to identify genuine citizens and irregular migrants from Bangladesh who possibly migrated to the state at various points over the last five decades.
Residents of the state are required to apply for inclusion in the NRC lists along with their own documents and that of an ancestor, as applicable, to prove their residence in the state prior to 24 March 1971. The process of NRC is being monitored by the Supreme Court of India. A first list was published on 31 December 2017 that included 19 million persons out of 32.9 million who had applied for inclusion in the list.
