Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Thursday said that leaders of Bodoland Territorial Council have agreed to start the rehabilitation process of all the genuinely displaced people back to their villages in phased manner.
Informing that in first phase all those who have their land in BTC would be given settlement, Mr Gogoi told reporters, “The decision was taken in a meeting between group of ministers and the leaders of Bodoland Territorial Council.”
Stating that the GoM headed by Prithwi Manjhi and BTC leaders would review the rehabilitation process again on September 6, Mr Gogoi said, “I have spoken to BTC chief Hagrama Mahiliary who assured me that all those genuinely displaced people irrespective of their caste, creed and religion would be given settlement on their respective places of displacement.”
Mr Gogoi also announced that his government has taken a decision to complete the updating of National Register of Citizenship (NRC) in three phases and within three years time.
Informing that first year NRC updating will be done in 42 assembly segments, Mr Gogoi, in an obvious reference to growing protest against foreigners in the state, said, “I admit that there are foreigners in the state but its permanent solution is updating of the NRC.” Mr Gogoi also sought the help of civil society and all the political parties in process of updating the NRC.
“We are going to set up a special cell of officers for this purpose that will start working in next two-three months,” said Mr Gogoi clarifying that a pilot project to update the National Register of Citizenship was started in Goalpara but halted because of protest by a section of people.