{"id":15700,"date":"2024-03-14T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/?p=15700"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:08:55","slug":"centre-notifies-implementation-of-citizenship-amendment-act-caa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/centre-notifies-implementation-of-citizenship-amendment-act-caa\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Notifies Implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian Central Government led by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi officially announced the<br>implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on the 11th of March, ahead of the Lok<br>Sabha elections, which are tentatively scheduled to be held around the month of end April\/1st week<br>of May, this year. the centre, along with the notification of the implementation of this much debated<br>and controversial act, also announced the rules that are to be enforced, following the<br>commencement of the law, thereby making this ACT a reality from now onwards. A decision which<br>did not take much time to come into affect after the Union Home Minister Amit Shah publicly<br>declared that this particular ACT shall be implemented into a law, right before the onset of the<br>proceedings of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.<\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_77 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/centre-notifies-implementation-of-citizenship-amendment-act-caa\/#What_is_the_Citizenship_Amendment_Act\" >What is the Citizenship Amendment Act?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/centre-notifies-implementation-of-citizenship-amendment-act-caa\/#Religion_as_a_Category_of_Citizenship\" >Religion as a Category of Citizenship<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/centre-notifies-implementation-of-citizenship-amendment-act-caa\/#Criticisms_faced_against_this_Act\" >Criticisms faced against this Act<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/centre-notifies-implementation-of-citizenship-amendment-act-caa\/#How_many_times_has_the_Citizenship_Act_amended\" >How many times has the Citizenship Act amended?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_Citizenship_Amendment_Act\"><\/span>What is the Citizenship Amendment Act?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019, emphasises on the basis of providing citizenship to<br>foreigners who have immigrated into our country from the neighbouring countries. This Amendment,<br>therefore provides a pre-approved freeway passage for \u201cnon- Muslim\u201d immigrants from Afghanistan,<br>Bangladesh and Pakistan who immigrated before 2015, to acquire their legal Indian citizenship,<br>which is solely performed on the basis of religion. The implementation of this particular Amendment<br>accelerates their leverage towards citizenship and catapults their ability to obtain all legal,<br>fundamental, social and other rights which are guaranteed to the other citizens of the country. The<br>implementation of the law ensures the guaranteed citizenship rights to the religious minorities of the<br>neighbouring countries who have been a victim of numerous heinous crimes such as religious<br>persecution and other intensive violence in their respective native countries. The implementation of<br>the law ensures an official solidarity and protection from the government of India which aims to<br>provide a peaceful and safe environment to these minority religious communities and ensures to<br>bestow a suitable place for them to live and thrive in. This amendment thus nullified and removes<br>the prerequisites of residence requirement and naturalisation that was previously heralded as a<br>criterion for citizenship. According to statements issued by the official reports, there are about more<br>than 30,000 immediate recipients who are eligible to be benefited from this law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Religion_as_a_Category_of_Citizenship\"><\/span>Religion as a Category of Citizenship<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For the very first time in history, we have a law such as CAA that makes religion, a category of<br>towards individuals to obtain their Indian citizenship, wherein, \u201cnon-Muslims\u201d are adhered with the<br>utmost priority by the government in deciding whom to provide with the privilege of owning the<br>rights of becoming an Indian Citizen. After almost four whole years since the passing of this law from<br>both the houses of the Lok Sabha, CAA now becomes a new reality. The implementation of this act<br>into a law has always been vehemently right under the array of extreme imminent danger and<br>violence which saw massive protests filled with fuming rage and extreme violence , which were set<br>against with fierce resistance from the government of the opposition parties and from the non \u2013 BJP<br>party state governments.<br>Once issued, the government shall have absolute authority and control to approve and award Indian<br>Nationality to the NON-Muslim migrants of the said three neighbouring countries, that is<br>Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The eligible religious minorities to be granted with citizenship<br>are the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parisians and Christians. Thus, making it as the first and the<br>only law that makes the aspect of religion as criteria for being considered towards getting the<br>approval of obtaining citizenship from the government of India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Citizenship Amendment Bill ( addressed as CAB initially) was first introduced in the year 2016. This motive aimed to change, or to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955. Which was later passed in the year 2019; first by the Lok Sabha on 9th of December 2019, and two days later by the Rajya Sabha on 11th of December. Which was subsequently thereafter came to be officially revered to as the Citizenship Amendment Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Criticisms_faced_against_this_Act\"><\/span>Criticisms faced against this Act<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This Act has always been in the hot waters for being religiously discriminatory against the Muslim<br>community that tends to dominate and overpower this particular religious community with the<br>overarching presence of all the other religious communities combined. The office of the United<br>Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( UNHCHR) deems this act as \u201cfundamentally<br>discriminatory \u201c and derogatory manipulation towards slow nullification of one particular<br>community, which they lay an emphasis upon by stating that ; India\u2019s aim in ensuring a safe<br>protection of all the religious minorities that have been victims of religious persecution is highly<br>appreciated however, this noble cause should be performed without any racial or religious prejudice<br>that tends to over-line and insinuate the performance of the legal proceedings through undertones<br>of religious hatred that tends to manipulate their way into massive eradication of all the individuals<br>of one particular religious and ethnic community as per their liking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_many_times_has_the_Citizenship_Act_amended\"><\/span>How many times has the Citizenship Act amended?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, this particular Act which is deeply seeped into violent controversies has been amended for 6<br>times in total. The very first Amendment was initiated in the year 1986, which was followed with a<br>second amendment in the year 1992, the third amendment in the year 2003, which soon followed<br>which the fourth amendment just after two years in 2005, the next one being dormant for almost a<br>decade only to return with the fifth amendment in the year 2015 and then the final one , that is the<br>sixth amendment was passed in the year 2019, which is still very much seeped into the ramifications<br>of violence and severe disorder amongst the netizens expressing their anger and dissent towards the<br>implementation of this controversial Act of which the reverberations can be felt even today. With the<br>official declaration of its implementation, it is anticipated to become a full fledged cause of conflict<br>which might be seen in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Central Government led by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi officially announced theimplementation of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15701,"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700\/revisions\/15701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borthakursiasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}