Citizenship Amendment Act 2024 Drishti Ias. The 2019 caa amended the citizenship act of 1955 allowing indian citizenship for hindu, sikh, buddhist, jain, parsi, and christian religious minorities who fled from the. Kuala lumpur, july 12 — in march 2024, the government tabled proposed constitutional amendments aimed, among others, at addressing statelessness among children of malaysians.

The law seeks to provide citizenship to hindus, jains, christians, sikhs, buddhists and parsis who came to india on or before december 31, 2014. The application process for citizenship under caa has been made under section 6b of the citizenship act, 1955.