No decision yet on country-wide NRC: Govt to Lok Sabha

The Centre has not yet taken any decision to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens for the entire country, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

The minister said on the direction of the Supreme Court, the supplementary list of inclusions and the list of exclusions for the NRC in Assam have been published on August 31, 2019.

Till now, the government has not taken any decision to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens at the national level, he said in a written reply to a question.