{
 "no": 47,
 "id": "case-47",
 "sk": 20190831,
 "year": 2019,
 "date": "Published 31 Aug 2019, in limbo since",
 "cat": "Public money",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "Assam NRC. ₹1,600 crore, then disowned",
 "stamp": "Built, then rejected by its own backers",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>19,06,657</b> people left off the final list, their citizenship in limbo for years, disproportionately the poor and minorities",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "~<b>₹1,600 cr</b> and a decade of work by tens of thousands of officials, left unimplemented",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "The Supreme-Court-monitored National Register of Citizens in Assam, an exercise the BJP had long campaigned for, cost around ₹1,600 crore and a decade of work by tens of thousands of officials, and on 31 August 2019 excluded 19,06,657 people from the final list.",
 "dodge": "Having finally got the register it had demanded, the BJP-led state government and the Centre then refused to accept the result, alleging irregularities and seeking a re-verification, so the ₹1,600 crore exercise sits in limbo, unimplemented to this day. Rejection slips were never properly issued, and 19 lakh people were left in citizenship limbo with no closure. A vast public spend produced an outcome its own sponsors disowned the moment it did not suit them.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Amit Shah",
   "r": "Home Minister"
  },
  {
   "n": "Assam state government (BJP)",
   "r": "Demanded, then disowned, the NRC"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government says it sought re-verification to ensure a correct, error-free register, and that the whole process was monitored by the Supreme Court.",
 "alt": "Either stand by a court-monitored result or never launch a divisive, ruinously costly exercise you intend to disown, and give the 19 lakh excluded a fair, funded and time-bound path to be heard.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "₹1,600 cr later, NRC still in limbo",
   "url": "https://assamtribune.com/assam/rs-1600-cr-later-assam-nrc-still-in-limbo-aasu-seeks-re-verification-1579359",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250915201102/https://assamtribune.com/assam/rs-1600-cr-later-assam-nrc-still-in-limbo-aasu-seeks-re-verification-1579359"
  },
  {
   "label": "Govt refused to accept the final list",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/assam-discontinues-services-of-200-members-of-fts-appointed-to-clear-nrc-claims-1153897.html",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20221121012700/https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/assam-discontinues-services-of-200-members-of-fts-appointed-to-clear-nrc-claims-1153897.html"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "costInrCrore": 1600
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-47/"
}