CM KCR Asaduddin Owaisi Meet on CAA, NRC, NPA | PM Modi | Amit Shah | TV5 News
CM KCR Asaduddin Owaisi Meet on CAA, NRC, NPA | PM Modi | Amit Shah | TV5 News With the Union Cabinet's approval of Rs 3,941.35 crore for updating the National Population Register (NPR) on Tuesday, the Central government has taken the second big step towards preparing a nation-wide National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC). On July 31, 2019, the government had, through a notification in the official gazette, set the ball rolling for the NPR. The whole exercise - first the NPR which would be scrutinised and verified before the NRIC is prepared - is not just about preparing a list of "usual residents" but also about identifying "illegal migrants" and "doubtful citizenship". While the entire country has erupted in against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 (CAA) and the NRC (or NRIC, which is a nation-wide NRC excluding Assam), as the two together would filter out only the Muslims for granting citizenship to outsiders, a far bigger danger is lurking for the rest of us in the form of "doubtful citizenship" that the NPR is mandated to mark out. A provision for this "doubtful citizenship" has been given in the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 (2003 Rules) under which the NPR is being prepared. What is "doubtful citizenship"? Who is a "doubtful" citizen? Sub-rule (4) of Rule 4 of the 2003 Rules - reproduced below - says that "during the verification process of the Population Register (or NPR), a step before the NRIC is prepared, an individual or a family would be marked as "doubtful" citizen or have "doubtful citizenship". What is "doubtful citizenship"? On what basis an individual or a family would be marked "doubtful" citizen as this provision talks about? For one, "doubtful citizenship" has not been defined in the 2003 Rules. In fact, it does not even exist in the main law - Citizenship Act of 1955. The 2003 Rules were framed under this Citizenship Act of 1955 following the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2003 (CAA of 2003). Secondly, the 2003 Rules, which sets the ground rule and provides for procedures and processes to be followed for preparing the NPR and NRIC does not say how an individual or a family would be identified as "doubtful". Subscribe to TV5 News for Latest Happenings and Breaking news from Andhra and Telangana. For More Updates ► TV5 News Live : https://goo.gl/UPacax ► Subscribe to TV5 News Channel: http://goo.gl/NHJD9 ►Our Website : http://www.tv5news.in ► Like us on Facebook: / tv5newschannel ► Follow us on Twitter: / tv5newsnow ► Circle us on TV5 News Channel G+: https://plus.google.com/+tv5newschannel ► Follow us on Pinterest: / tv5newschannel
