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Centre amends rules for minorities from three nations
Why is it in news?
- The contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is pending in Parliament.
- But the Union Home Ministry has notified amendments to the Citizenship Rules, 2009 to include a separate column in the citizenship form for applicants belonging to six minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
- Under the amendments a separate entry in the form will ask the applicant about his country and minority.
Section 18 of the Citizenship Act, 1955.
- The Centre has made the changes under New rules were notified on December 3.
- A parliamentary committee has been examining the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, that proposes citizenship to six persecuted minorities — Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians and Buddhists — from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who came to India before 2014.
- It has run into strong resistance in Assam because it will pave the way for giving citizenship mostly to illegal Hindu migrants from Bangladesh in Assam, who came after March 1971, in violation of the 1985 Assam Accord.
Source
The Hindu