Citizenship certificates for 14 CAA applicants
The Free Press Journal|May 16, 2024
Fourteen applicants, most of them who had come to India from Pakistan, were on Wednesday physically handed over Citizenship Certificates under the new Citizenship Amendment Act by Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla.

The Director of Intelligence Bureau, Tapan Kumar Deka, and Registrar General of India, Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, were also present at the event.

This is the first set of citizenship certificates to be issued after the notification of Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024. During the event, Bhalla congratulated the applicants and highlighted the salient features of the new Rules, which were notified by the Centre on March 11 this year.

He said these Rules envisage manner of application form, procedure for processing applications by District Level Committee (DLC) and scrutiny and grant of citizenship by State Level Empowered Committee (EC).

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