"No Decision To Prepare NRC On National Level": Government To Parliament | Read

There are no plans for now to conduct a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise, the government said in parliament today. "Till now, the government has not taken any decision to prepare National Register of Indian Citizens at the national level," Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai, said in a written reply. With the clarification, the Home Ministry hopes to defuse anger and protests over the NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) for the past two months.