Around 3.11 crore out of the 3.3 crore applicants have made it to the final list of the Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC). According to the list published on Saturday, some 19 lakh people have been left out from the list, which means that they are no longer Indians. One of the prominent names who was excluded from the list was Dr Jitendra Nath Goswami, a renowned scientist from Assam and an adviser of Chandrayaan 2 Mission along with his family, a report in the Northeast Now stated.When we are hoping to reach the moon through Chandrayaan 2, our scientists are not even considered Indians by the state NRC.
“We have been living in Ahmedabad for last 20 years. Perhaps we failed to do whatever was required for inclusion of our names in the NRC. But our family is there in Assam, we have lands in Jorhat. If there is some problem in future, we’ll have to do something by showing the land documents,” Dr Goswami the chandrayaan 2 advisor was quoted to as saying to Northeast Now.