
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) came into effect on Monday. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. However, this law will not be implemented in the tribal areas of the North-Eastern states.
According to news agency PTI, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 will not be implemented in most tribal areas of the northeastern states, including areas granted special status under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
These states will get an exemption
Officials cited the rules of the law notified on Monday and said that tribal areas where autonomous councils were formed under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution have also been kept out of the purview of the CAA. These autonomous councils exist in Assam, Meghalaya, and Tripura.
What is CAA?
Let us tell you that under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will get Indian citizenship. Will provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees who arrived before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution from countries neighboring India.
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