Citizenship certificates issued in Bengal, Haryana, Uttarakhand under CAA
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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Wednesday that the process of granting citizenship under the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has now begun in West Bengal, Haryana, and Uttarakhand. The first set of applications were granted citizenship by the states' respective Empowered Committees, it added. The CAA was enacted in December 2019 to grant Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014.