"Like New Birth Certificates For Us": Man Who Got Citizenship Under CAA
NDTV
Dayal Singh, 47, who has been living in a shanty in North Delhi's Majnu-ka-Tilla since 2013 after he migrated from Pakistan with his family, was among the 14 people to be given the certificate under CAA.
These are "new birth certificates". This is how Dayal Singh, a refugee from Pakistan, described the citizenship certificates issued to him, his son and his daughter.
Mr Singh, 47, who has been living in a shanty in North Delhi's Majnu-ka-Tilla since 2013 after he migrated from Pakistan with his family, was among the 14 people to be given the certificate under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Wednesday. The law grants Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Singh's wife Mira, 40, and his other five children are yet to get their certificates but she is happy that a part of the family is now 'Bharatiya Nagriks' (Indian citizens).
