They had been apprehensive after the first draft, published on December 31, 2017, had left out 60% to 70% of Bhogdahar panchayat’s inhabitants. Districts like Darrang and Hojai have the highest figures, with over 32% rejects.Īccording to panchayat president Rahman, the figure is even lower for Bhogdahar, which is spread across a cluster of chars. Going by figures circulated in the local press, about 7.5% of applicants from this district have been left out of the list. Though more than 40 lakh people have been left out of the final draft, Dhubri district does not appear to have a high number of rejects. Governments have largely stayed away from these areas, afraid they will be accused of “feeding the Bangladeshis at the cost of depriving the Indian nationals”, writes social scientist Gorky Chakraborty.īut after the final draft of the National Register of Citizens was published on July 30, the residents of Bhogdahar heaved a sigh of relief. They persist even though a number of studies suggest that population growth here is driven by high fertility rates rather than migration. For years, the people who made their homes here have been dismissed as “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”, with stories of a population boom used to bolster the myth. In Lower Assam’s Dhubri district, the chars brush up against the Bangladesh border as it weaves through land and water. The edges of the chars are constantly crumbling into the river. The tops of submerged trees mark out the spot where other chars went under water. While Bhogdahar may have held for decades, many of the chars around it cropped up just five to 10 years ago. “My father died at 90 and he was born here, that is how old it is,” said Ata-ur Rahman, president of the Bhogdahar gram panchayat.Ĭhars – deposits of alluvial soil shaped by ropes of water – are found across the length of the Brahmaputra as it flows through Assam. Its residents believe it is more than 100 years old. Blame the pollution in Yamuna, not just industrial emissionsīhogdahar is a very old char, or sand bar, in the middle of the Brahmaputra River.
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