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Business News/ News / India/  Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 gets President’s nod
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Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 gets President’s nod

The Act was passed by both Houses of Parliament earlier this week with a clear majority
  • The Act aims to provide citizenship to those who had been forced to seek shelter in India
  • President Ram Nath Kovind. Photo: ANI Photo/ R RaveendranPremium
    President Ram Nath Kovind. Photo: ANI Photo/ R Raveendran

    NEW DELHI : The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 received President Ram Nath Kovind's nod late Thursday, and hence became an Act.

    The President's assent comes amid intense outrage across Assam and Tripura, where curfew has been extended indefinitely in some parts. The Army was also deployed to disperse protestors.

    The bill was passed by both Houses of Parliament earlier this week with a clear majority.

    The Act aims to provide citizenship to those who had been forced to seek shelter in India because of religious persecution or fear of persecution in their home countries, primarily Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This is a drastic shift from the provisions of the Citizenship Act of 1955 that labels a person an “illegal immigrant" if he or she has entered India without travel documents or has overstayed the date specified in the documents.

    It therefore amends the 1955 Act to grant exemptions to illegal migrants from these communities, who reached India on or before December 2014.

    According to the Act, the amendment will not be applicable to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution and in the areas covered under The Inner Line, notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.

    It also proposes to incorporate a sub-section (d) to Section 7, providing for cancellation of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) registration where the OCI card-holder has violated any provision of the Citizenship Act or any other law in force.

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    Published: 13 Dec 2019, 08:44 AM IST
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