NEW DELHI: In a written reply to Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for House Affairs Nityanand Rai on Tuesday mentioned that the foreigners lined beneath the Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019 (CAA) might submit functions for grant of Indian citizenship after acceptable guidelines are notified by the Central Authorities.
“The Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019 (CAA) has been notified on December 12, 2019, and has come into power from January 10, 2020. The foreigners lined beneath this Modification Act might submit functions for grant of Indian citizenship after acceptable guidelines are notified by the Central Authorities,” mentioned Nityanand Rai replying to Congress MP VK Sreekandan’s query whether or not the method of granting Indian citizenship to refugees beneath the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) will start as soon as the method of COVID-19 vaccination ends.
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MoS House additional added that the Committees on Subordinate Laws, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have granted time as much as April 9, 2021, and July 9, 2021, respectively to border these guidelines.
The CAA was handed by the parliament in December 2019. The regulation grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan and got here to India earlier than 2015.
The NRC for Assam is a file maintained by the Central Authorities for the folks of Assam. It accommodates names and sure related data for the identification of residents within the state. At the moment, the register exists just for Assam. Nonetheless, on November 20, 2019, House Minister Amit Shah declared throughout a parliamentary session that the register could be prolonged to your complete nation quickly. The register was first ready after the 1951 Census of India.
