contrary to the state governments claims the students body said that 80 of their population does not have its names either in the nrc of 1951 or the electoral rolls till 1971 about 895 of the adivasi population in the tea belt has found records of its predecessor rapahel kujur president of the all adivasi students association said the state government has told them that not a single member of the community will be left out they also play a key role in electoral politics as they are the deciding factor in 26 of the 126 assembly constituencies the adivasis with a population of 70 to 80 lakh constitute the third biggest community after caste assamese and minorities the rgi has launched the mega exercise in the state to enlist indian citizens living in assam by including the persons whose names appear in the nrc of 1951 or in any of the electoral rolls up to the midnight of 24th march 1971 and their descendants the state government has initiated discussions with the centre and the registrar general of india rgi for devising a new mechanism to include the adivasis in the updated nrc list we have written to the rgi and centre for a new mechanism to include all them the students body said that as most of the adivasi people have been living in quarters provided by tea gardens where they are employed they have no land of their own to provide land documents to prove their citizenship in the state as of now we have asked our people to submit the applications forms with or without documents kujur said however we do not want a single adivasi to be excluded because of lack of documents the adivasis say names of many of their predecessors have neither been enlisted in the nrc of 1951 nor entered in the voters lists till 1971 without which they cannot prove their relationship with their forefathers who were settled in the state about 175 years ago on wednesday the assam tea tribe students association submitted a memorandum to governor p b acharya demanding unconditional inclusion of their names in the nrc state home and political commissioner and secretary prateek hajela who is the state coordinator for nrc said the adivasi population should not have any fear of being left out guwahati lakhs of the states adivasis indias one of the biggest indigenous groups who were brought from the chotanagpur plateau by the british to work in tea plantations here in the mid19th century are apprehending of being turned into stateless people because of certain provisions in the ongoing updating of the national register of citizens nrc 1951