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The Citizenship Amendment Bill in a north-eastern state of India and all you need to know about it.
If you don’t belong to the subcontinent, you might not know about what is going on regarding the NRC and the CAB in India’s north-eastern province, Assam. Here is a brief introduction to this burning issue and my take on how the hullabaloo can be solved.
What is the difference between the NRC and the CAB:
As G Plus pointed out,
The NRC is the National Registers Citizens of India. It consists of the names of Indian citizens of Assam. The NRC was first prepared in 1951 to make a registry of all legal citizens residing in Indian domicile.
However, it is not accurate in today’s date because a lot of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh had come into Assam during and after the 1971 war. And the 1951 NRC also does not consist of the names of the Genuine Indian Citizens who may have migrated to Assam post 1951. Hence The NRC list is being made again.
As opposed to that, as The Economic Times points out,
The Citizenship Amendment Bill (the CAB, in short) seeks to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan…
