The process of granting citizenship under the new Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA began in three states on Wednesday, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement.
The process of granting citizenship certificates under the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 has now commenced in the State of West Bengal, where the first set of applications from the State were today granted citizenship by the Empowered Committee, West Bengal. Similarly, the Empowered Committees of the States of Haryana and Uttarakhand have also granted citizenship…
This expansion comes two weeks after Delhi’s distribution, with the first sets of certificates in the new states being granted by their respective empowered committees. - Newsx
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