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The committee estimates about 70 lakh of Assam’s three crore people are “likely” to be dropped off the NRC list in phases. more-inSitting in a central Kolkata guest house, Topodhir Bhattacharya, 69, nearly broke down. I have always stayed and worked in Silchar and ended up as the Vice-Chancellor [V-C] of Assam University, a Central university, where the Vice-Chancellor is appointed by the President. Less than 30% residents of three districts of Bengali-dominated Barak Valley featured in the first list of NRC. We never used to have one in 1949,” said Mr.
Bhattacharya, a well-known writer of Assam..