India’s NRC could exclude Muslims

India’s National Population Register – a database of residents in every state except Assam – could pave the way for a pan-Indian National Register of Citizens (NRC). Assam implemented an NRC in 1951


Apr 2019: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) manifesto pledges to implement NRC


Muslim population above 10%

Detention centres: Six centres in Assam hold some 1,000 migrants. Other centres in Delhi, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal*

Matia: Newly built detention centre to hold 3,000 migrants

BHUTAN
Kokrajhar
Goalpara
Guwahati
Tezpur
Brahmaputra
ASSAM 34.2%
Silchar
Dibrugarh
Jorhat
160km 100 miles


Jammu & Kashmir† 68.3%
Punjab 1.9% 
Haryana 7.0%
Rajasthan 9.1%
Gujarat 9.7%
Daman and Diu 7.9%
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 3.8%
Telangana 12.7% 
Goa 8.3%
Karnataka 12.9%
Kerala 26.6%
Lakshadweep Islands 96.6%
Uttar Pradesh 19.3%
Madhya Pradesh 6.6%
Maharashtra 11.5%
Himachal Pradesh 2.2% 
Uttarakhand 13.9%
Delhi 12.9% 
Assam 34.2% 
Sikkim 1.6%
Bihar 16.9%
West Bengal 27.0%
Jharkhand 14.5% 
Orissa 2.2%
Chhattisgarh 4.9% 
Andhra Pradesh 9.6% 
Puducherry 6.1% 
Tamil Nadu 5.9%
Andaman & Nicobar Islands 8.5%
Arunachal Pradesh 2.0%
Nagaland 2.5%
Manipur 8.4%
Mizoram 1.4%
Meghalaya 4.4%
Tripura 8.6%


*Government officials deny detention camps are part of NRC. †Jammu and Kashmir – only Muslim-majority state – demoted to federal territory status in Aug 2019


Sources: Census of India, India Today, Times of India 
Picture: Getty Images 
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