The completed draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has been officially published by which state government?

The correct answer is Assam . Key Points The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is an official record of those who are legal Indian citizens . The draft was made to separate the legitimate residents of Assam from the illegal immigrants . The completed draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was officially published by which Assam. NRC was only published once in 1951 . After a petition in the Supreme Court by the Assam public works , the Supreme Court passed the issue to update the NRC in December 2013 . The first NRC draft was released by the Assam Government on 31 st December 2017 and the Second Draft was released on 30 th July 2018 . When the second NRC draft was released by the Assam government 4 million people were excluded that led to controversy . Additional Information Background: More than 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants in Assam were excluded from the final draft register published on August 31, 2019, which cost ₹1,220 crores. The government had rejected the NRC in its current form and demanded re-verification of at least 30% of names in areas bordering Bangladesh and 10% in the rest of the State. The Supreme Court had monitored the exercise of updating the NRC of 1951 in Assam. About 19.06 lakh out of 3.3 crore applicants were excluded from the updated draft. NRC: At its core, the NRC is an official record of those who are legal Indian citizens. It includes demographic information about all those individuals who qualify as citizens of India as per the Citizenship Act, 1955. The register was first prepared after the 1951 Census of India and since then it has not been updated until recently. NRC in Assam: So far, such a database has only been maintained for the state of Assam. The exercise was a culmination of the Assam Accord of 1985 signed between the Centre and the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP) for detection, disenfranchisement, and deportation of foreigners.