CAA rules notified: Here are ‘key issues’ that the Citizenship Law may solve

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Citizenship Amendment Act on Monday, March 11, weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. The Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024, enabling the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the Parliament in 2019, grant Indian citizenship to refugees who had sought shelter in India before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution in three countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Follow Live Updates on CAA Rules here The contentious Act passed in 2019 faced many delays amid criticism for excluding Muslims.

Though the legislation facilitates citizenship to undocumented people belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Christian, and Jain communities from the three countries, the rules said that the applicants will have to provide six types of documents and specify the date of entry into India. The Union government has now spelt out the key issues that the implementation of CAA might be able to solve, according to a report in NDTV. The CAA would help to remove “legal barriers to rehabilitation and citizenship" and “give a dignified life to refugees who have suffered for decades," the report said, quoting government sources.

Also Read: CAA rules notified: Here is what the 2019 Bill on Citizenship Amendment Act proposed The citizenship rights, would protect the cultural, linguistic, and social identity of the refugees. It will also ensure economic, commercial, free movement, and property purchase rights, sources told NDTV. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 was passed in Parliament in December 2019.

The Lok Sabha passed the Bill on December 9, 2019, while the Rajya Sabha passed it on December 11, 2019. The President gave the assent the next day. The law led to nationwide protests against