Prior to declaring the dates for the 2018 Lok Sabha elections, the Modi government issued a notification for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) throughout the country. It's worth mentioning that parliament enacted the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) nearly 5 years ago. However, the central government has made a key decision to apply CAA in the country.
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CAA, or Citizenship Amendment Act, will be implemented in the country beginning today. Under this legislation, displaced minorities from three bordering nations will be granted Indian citizenship. They will, however, have to apply for Indian citizenship through an internet portal set up by the government.
Minorities from three nations will be given citizenship in India.
The Modi-led central government revised the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2019. This law included provisions for granting Indian citizenship to six minority communities (Christian, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Parsi, and Buddhist) from three nations (Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan) that came in India before December 31, 2014. According to the law, the federal government will have the ability to grant citizenship to all minorities traveling from these three countries to India.
What is the CAA law, and what are its provisions?
Let me tell you that the Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, grants citizenship to persons of non-Muslim faiths from three adjacent Indian countries.
The federal government has created an online platform where they (minorities from all three countries) can apply. They will need to register on this website. Following registration, individuals would be subjected to official scrutiny before receiving Indian citizenship. Furthermore, no documentation are required of the displaced minorities from the three Muslim countries (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan).Citizenship awarded in these nine states of the country.Under the Citizenship Act of 1955, district magistrates and home secretaries in more than 30 districts across nine states have been given the authority to grant Indian citizenship to Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the last two years.
According to the Home Ministry's annual report for fiscal year 2021-22, about 1414 non-Muslim minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan were granted Indian citizenship between April 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. Minorities from non-Muslim communities in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have received citizenship in the states of Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Punjab, Gujarat, and Rajasthan.
