Suddenly the data disappeared from the website as the service period of the cloud storage provided by IT firm Wipro expired
New Delhi: The final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) with all data showing details of included and excluded people have been made offline from its official website.
Suddenly the data disappeared from the website as the service period of the cloud storage provided by IT firm Wipro expired. After the transfer of the former coordinator Prateek Hajela the subscription renewal was not done as there was no coordinator.
This prompted the Opposition Congress to doubt it as a “mala fide act”.
On August 31, 2019, after the final list was published, the entire detail of exclusion and inclusion of bonafide Indian citizens in the NRC was uploaded on its official website ‘www.nrcassam.nic.in’.
But the data was not available for the last few days and it created panic among the people excluded from the list as the rejection certificates were yet to be issued.
NRC State Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma accepted that the data have been made offline, but refuted the allegation of any “mala fide” intent in it.
“The cloud service provides huge data by Wipro and their contract was till October 19 last year. Though this was not renewed by the past Coordinator. The data got offline from December 15 after it was suspended by Wipro. I assumed charge on December 24,” said Sarma.
Sarma informed that the state coordination committee had decided to do necessary formalities in its meeting on January 30 and wrote to the Wipro during the first week of February. “Once Wipro makes the data live, it will be available for the public. We hope that people will be able to see the data next 2-3 days,” he added.
Reacting to the data issue, Leader of the Opposition in Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia wrote to the Registrar General of India and requested him to look into the matter immediately.
“Almost like a mystery as to how the online data vanished suddenly, especially as the appeals process has not even started due to the go-slow attitude adopted by the NRC Authority. Therefore, ample scope to suspect that the disappearance of online data is a mala fide act, Saikia said.
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