Tripura forms state-level committee for granting citizenship under CAA

Agartala ,17/5: The Tripura government has constituted a six-member state-level empowered committee with Director, Census Operations, as chairman to grant citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, an official said on Friday.

The CAA was enacted in December 2019 to grant Indian nationality to persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who came to India on or before December 31, 2014