Guwahati, June 26 -- The Assam government has found an additional 102,462 people ineligible to be included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is being updated in the state under the Supreme Court's monitoring.The Assam government on Wednesday published an additional draft exclusion list of the NRC comprising the names of 102,462 persons, who were included in the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018 but have been subsequently found ineligible due to different reasons.

According to a statement issued by the state coordinator of NRC, the additional draft exclusion list was published as per the provisions contained in Clause 5 of the Schedule of The Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cords) Ru...