NRC authorities in Assam have received 31.2L claims to be added to the NRC and 2.6L objections for inclusion of names on final draft list published in last July. Monday December-31 was last date to file-claims and objections. Authorities had received just around 600 objections until December-30, but that swelled on final-day, an-official at NRC office said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

About 4.5 lakh people, out of the total 40 lakh, who were excluded in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC), have claimed that they are Indian nationals, two months after the window opens for claims and objections in the Supreme Court-monitored exercise, sources said Sunday. The draft NRC was published on July 30.

The Supreme Court today extended its June 30 deadline for publication of the final draft of Assams National Register of Citizens (NRC) by a month, after the Centre and the state coordinator agreed to publish it within the new time limit. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R F Nariman considered the report of state NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela and extended the deadline.