Sar Zamin-e-hind par aqwaam-e-alam ke firaq/ Kafile guzarte gae Hindustan

banta gaya

As the great Urdu poet Firaq Gorakhpuri wrote: Sar Zamin-e-hind par aqwaam-e-
alam ke firaq/ Kafile guzarte gae Hindustan banta gaya (“In the land of Hind, the
caravans of the peoples of the world kept coming in and India kept getting
formed”).

Q.1. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE MIGRANTS COMING SHELTER IN INDIA?

Q.2. WHAT PROBLEM THEY CAUSE TO INDIA WHOLE AS A STATE AND TO ITS CITIZENS?

1).THREAT TO INTERNAL SECURITY

2). WOMEN TRAFIKING AND SMUGGLING ETC

ARE THEY ANY GOOD?

REASONS FOR MIGRATON

Q.3. WHAT SAFEGUARDS WE CAN PUT TO CONTROL MIGRATION, HOW WE ENSURE BETTER
CONDITIONS FOR THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY PRESENT. HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT
THEY DO NOT DISTURB OR SNATCH THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIAN CITIZENS.

Q.4. IMPACT OF Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.

Q.5. IS THE BILL IS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MUSLIMS?

Q.6. SAMIR GUHA ROY SAYS THERE IS SIGNIFICANT INTERNAL MIGRATION

MISTAKEN AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN INDIA.

Q.7. WHAT ARE THE LAWS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN INDIA AND
WHAT ARE ITS IMPLICATIONS?

Q.8.HOW CAN WE CONTROL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION?

MEANING

A foreigner is considered to be an illegal migrant under two circumstances. One, if they come
into India without valid travel documents, like a visa and passport, or two, having come in
legally, they stay beyond the time period permitted to them under their travel documents.
Illegal migrants may be imprisoned or deported. They and their children are ineligible for
Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Act of 1955.

s the Bill differentiating among illegal migrants based on religion?

The Bill does not cover illegal migrants who are Muslim, or who belong to other
minority communities such as Jews and Bahais from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and
Pakistan. This provision will have to be evaluated against the standard of equality
guaranteed to all citizens and foreigners under Article 14 of the Constitution.
Article 14 only allows laws to treat groups of people differently if there is a
reasonable rationale for doing so. The government has not provided any clear
rationale for making illegal migrants belonging to only some minority
communities eligible for citizenship.

HISTORY

FROM THE HINDU

USEFUL MATTER

However, certain benefits have been granted to some groups of illegal migrants. In
September 2015 and July 2016, the central government exempted certain groups of illegal
migrants from being imprisoned or deported. These are illegal migrants who came into India
from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan on or before December 31, 2014, and belong to
the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian religious communities. Illegal migrants
from this group cannot be imprisoned or deported for not having valid travel documents.

CAUSE OR REASON

BANGLADESH LIBERATION WAR (WIKIPEDIA)

How many illegal migrants are there in the country?

There are no official estimates — mainly because of the difficulty in tracking
persons who have entered the country without the requisite papers. The only kind
of data that is available is regarding the number of foreigners who, having entered
India legally, have stayed back illegally. Official estimates put this number at
28,356 as of December 2014. The largest number among these illegal migrants are
from Pakistan (15%), followed by Sri Lanka (14%), South Korea (6%) and Iraq
(6%).

How does the new Bill seek to change the law on illegal migrants?
At present, a person can apply for Indian citizenship on grounds including being
born in India, or to an Indian parent, or having resided in India over a certain
period of time. However, an illegal migrant is prohibited from becoming an Indian
citizen. The amendment Bill provides that illegal migrants belonging to the
specified six minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan will
not be treated as illegal migrants and will, therefore, be eligible for Indian
citizenship.
The Bill also relaxes the eligibility criteria for citizenship for persons from these
six minority communities of the three neighbouring countries. As of now, a person
must have resided in India for 12 of the 15 years preceding the date of application;
the Bill relaxes the 12-year requirement to 7 years for this particular group of
individuals.