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                                                             Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)


                                                               This bill gives an opportunity to the crores of
                                                               persecuted minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and
                                                               Afghanistan to live with dignity. Apart from this,
                                                               there are also provisions to provide citizenship to
                                                               such refugees who do not in any way go against
             Indian-origin pilgrims of all religions can now   any provision of the Constitution of India.
            pay obeisance at Kartapur using this corridor.     The central government took a historic decision to
            No separate visa is required to go there. They
            can visit Kartarpur with a valid passport.         amend the citizenship law to solve the decades-
                                                               old problem to protect the rights and honor
             An online portal launched for the registration    of persecuted religious minorities in India's
            of interested pilgrims.                            neighboring countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh,
             Relief from GST to Langar.                        Afghanistan.
             Program on the Prakash Parv of Dashmesh            The Lok Sabha on 9 December, the Rajya Sabha
            Guru                                               on 11 December and President Ram Nath Kovind
             The election of the SGPC was restricted to        on 12 December 2019 approved the bill, which
            Kesdhari Sikhs only, and                           seeks to support Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi
             Review of blacklisted foreign Sikh nationals      and Christian communities who came to India
            after June 2019 and release of Sikh prisoners      due to religious persecution from Afghanistan,
            in batches (on Gandhi Jayanti) as part of          Bangladesh and Pakistan. There is a provision to
            amnesty scheme.                                    give Indian citizenship to them.

             Railway facilities have also been modernized      Simultaneously, arrangements were also made to
            at places associated with Guru Gobind Singh        ensure the linguistic, cultural and social identity of
            ji including Patna Sahib.                          the people of the Northeast.

             A pilgrimage circuit is also being built
            connecting all the major places including
            Anandpur Sahib in Punjab and Amritsar                         Triple Talaq
            Sahib in Amritsar through 'Swadesh Darshan
            Yojana'.                                            30 July 2019 has been recorded as an important
             The work of starting ropeway for Hemkund          milestone in the parliamentary history of India.
                                                               This law, which came into existence after the
            Sahib in Uttarakhand is also progressing.
                                                               passage of the historic triple talaq bill, has
             In view of the devotion and dedication            provided justice and respect to Muslim women,
            towards the Sikh community, one of the 5           which was awaited for decades.
            Takhts of the Sikhs, Sachkhand Shri Hazur
            Sahib, has awarded Prime Minister Modi a
            letter of honor.                                    After the passage of the triple talaq law, the
                                                                 name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
           RESERVATION TO UPPER CASTES FOR THE                certainly go down in history in the same rank as
           FIRST TIME IN HISTORY                               social reformers like Raja Rammohan Roy and
                                                                Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. The triple talaq
           A historic decision was taken by giving a           law will prove to be a revolutionary step in the
           10 percent reservation for economically             direction of securing the interests and rights of
           backward among general categories.                        Muslim women and now a new era
           Through this, the general category candidates                    will begin for them.
           with an annual income of Rs 8 lakh get the
           benefit of reservation with certain conditions.           Amit Shah, Union Home Minister

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