National Register of Citizens

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is meant to be a register of all Indian citizens whose creation was mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens of India so that the illegal immigrants can be identified and deported.^[1][2] It has been implemented for the state of Assam starting in 2013–2014.^[3] The Government of India announced plans to implement it for the rest of the country in 2021,^[4] but it has not yet been implemented.

In 2019, the Government passed another amendment (referred to as "CAA 2019" or "CAA"), which promised an accelerated naturalisation process for immigrants of persecuted Hindu, Christian,Buddhists, Parsi, Jain religious minority communities of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was widely seen as a way to exempt non-Muslims that might fail the criteria for inclusion in NRC, though Jews and Baha'is also falls in to this category.