New Delhi/Guwahati: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its nod to two proposals submitted by the NRC authorities on Monday.

It permitted the state coordinator for National Registration of Citizens (NRC) to develop a system for "rejecting" names of persons from the NRC without disclosing their names in any public domain to protect their right to privacy. The reason for deletion of names will be personally communicated to the applicants.

It also permitted the NRC authorities to call applicants to NRC seva kendras for verification of documents instead of the usual practice of conducting door-to-door visits.

A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R.F. Nariman passed the directions while reviewing the progress made in finalisation of the court-monitored draft NRC.

The NRC, prepared in 1951, is being updated in Assam to detect illegal immigrants.

NRC state coordinator Prateek Hajela also informed the bench that the complete draft NRC would be published by June 30, a deadline set by the court. The first part of the draft NRC, containing 1.9 crore names out of 3.29 crore applicants, was published on December 31 midnight.

"We take note of the fact that the state coordinator is optimistic of completion of the entire process of final publication of the NRC within the stipulated time, subject to limited change of timelines, if required. We do not wish to record anything further except to direct the state coordinator to proceed with the work entrusted to him by the orders of this court and cause publication of the final NRC on schedule," the bench said.

The All Assam Students' Union welcomed the Supreme Court direction to publish the final draft of NRC on June 30.

A statement issued by AASU president Dipanka Kumar Nath said, "The NRC update process has gathered steam in Assam only because of the active role played by the Supreme Court. The people of Assam want such intervention till an NRC without a single name of illegal Bangladeshi is published."

Nath, AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharjya and Aabhijeet Sharma, president of Assam Public Works, an NGO that had moved the Supreme Court in 2009 seeking update of NRC 1951, were present during the hearing.

Bhattacharya said, "Only 20 days left for scrutinising documents of NRC and only 50 days left for getting the final draft. All officials should work effectively and actively. Many illegal Bangladeshis are now trying to include their names in the NRC." He warned the ruling BJP not to disrupt the NRC update process by backing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.

The next hearing is on July 2.