(1) The Registrar General of Citizen Registration shall establish and maintain the National Register of Indian Citizens.
(2) The National Register of Indian Citizens shall be divided into sub-parts consisting of the State Register of Indian Citizens, the District Register of Indian Citizens, the Sub-district Register of Indian Citizens and the Local Register of Indian Citizens and shall contain such details as the Central Government may, by order, in consultation with the Registrar General of Citizen Registration, specify.
(3) The National Register of Indian Citizens shall contain the following particulars in respect of every Citizen, namely :-
(i) Name;
(ii) Father's name;
(iii) Mother's name;
(iv) Sex;
(v) Date of birth;
(vi) Place of birth;
(vii) Residential address (present and permanent);
(viii) Marital status - if ever married, name of the spouse;
(ix) Visible identification mark;
(x) Date of registration of Citizen;
(xi) Seriai number of registration; and
(xii) National Identity Number.
(4) The Central Government may, by an order issued in this regard, decide a date by which the Population Register shall be prepared by collecting information relating to all persons who are usually residing within the jurisdiction of Local Registrar.
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(5) The Local Register of Indian citizens shall contain details of persons after due verification made from the Population Register.
4, Preparation of the National Register of Indian Citizens. - (1) The Central Government shall, for the purpose of National Register of Indian Citizens, cause to carry throughout- the country a house-to-house enumeration for collection of specified pa'fcuiars /eiaung to each family and individual, residing In a local area including the Citizenship stat is.
(2) The Registrar General of Citizen Registration shall notify the period and duration of the enumeration in the Official Gazette. \
(3) For the purposes of preparation and inclusion in the Local Register of * Indian Citizens, the particulars collected of every family and individual, in the Population Register shall be verified and scrutinized by the Local Registrar, who may be assisted by one or more persons as specified by the Registrar General of Citizen Re jstration.
(4) During the verification process, particulars of such individuals, whose Citizenship is doubtful, sraM bs entered by the Local Registrar with appropriate remark in the Population Register for further enquiry and in case of doubtful Citizenship, the individual or the famiiy shall be informed in a specified proforma immediately after the verification process is over.
(5) (a) Every person or family specified in sub-rule (4), shall be given an opportunity ?f being heard by the Sub-district or Taluk Registrar of Citizen Registration, before a final decision is taken to include or to exclude their particulars in the National Register of Indian Citizens.
(b) The Sub-district or Taluk Registrar shall finalize his findings within a period of ninety days of the entry being made, or within such reasonable extended time for which he shall record the reasons in writing.
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(6) (a) The draft of the Local Register of Indian Citizens shall be published by the Sub-district or Taluk Registrar, for inviting any objections or for inclusion of any name or corrections for the family or individual particulars collected and proposed to be finally entered in the National Register of Indian Citizens.
(b) Any objection against a particular entry or for inclusion of a name, or corrections if any, in the Local Register of Indian Citizens may be made within a period of thirty days from the date of publication of the draft of the Local Register of Indian Citizens, spelling out the nature and reasons for the objection in such form as may be specified by the Registrar General of Citizen Registration.
(c) Subject to the provisions contained In clause (a) of sub-rule (5), the Subdistrict or Taluk Registrar shall consider such objections and summarily dispose off the same within a period of ninety'days, and thereafter submit the Local Register of Indian Citizens so prepared to the District Registrar of Citizen Registration who shall cause the entries in the Local Register of Indian Citizens, to be transferred to the National Register of Indian Citizens.
(7) (a) Any person aggrieved by the order of the Sub-district or Taluk Registrar under sub-rule (5) or sub-rule (6), may prefer an appeal within thirty days from the date of such order, to the District Registrar of Citizen Registration.
(b) The District Registrar of Citizen Registration shall take a final decision, after giving an opportunity of being heard to the person so aggrieved, within a period of ninety days from the date of appeal.
(c) In case the appeal is allowed, the particulars shall be entered in the National Register of Indian Citizens.