The Central government likely to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)from the first week of March. Sources told the The Daily Guardian, the Centre has prepared a portal to implement CAA. The rules are ready, the online portal is also ready and the entire process will be online, they added.
The CAA rules, introduced by the Central government, aim to confer Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.
Following the passage of the CAA by Parliament in December 2019 and its subsequent Presidential assent, significant protests had erupted in various parts of the country.
The implementation of the CAA, which has been delayed for over four years, necessitates the formulation of its associ- ated rules.