What is CAA, the law which led to massive protests in 2019?
Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 before Lok Sabha polls, the central government notified the CAA-19 rules on Monday. With the implementation of the CAA, non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan can easily get Indian citizenship. The law applies to all the people who came from the three countries on and before December 31, 2014.
CAA India Live Updates The Citizenship Act of 1955 was amended in 2019 (which is known as CAA-19) to provide a path to Indian citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis who are the victims of religious persecution or lived in fear or religious persecution. Under the 2019 amendment of the act, migrants who entered India on December 31, 2014, and had suffered “religious persecution or fear or religious persecution" in their country of origin would be made eligible for accelerated citizenship. The amendment in the Citizenship Act in 2019 has made the process of applying for citizenship easier for non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan to get Indian citizenship.
The CAA-19 has reduced the residence requirement for the naturalisation of eligible migrants from twelve years to just six. Nearly 30,000 people are likely to benefit from the CAA rules, according to an Intelligence Bureau report on CAA. The CAA will not be implemented in the region mentioned under the Sixth Schedule ( Tribal Areas in the States of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram) of the Indian Constitution.
Areas covered by the Inner Line Permit system (ILP) are also excluded from CAA law. The exclusion would ensure the safeguarding of the interests of the tribal and indigenous communities in the North-Eastern region. People living in this area won't be able to
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