Recently Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 was introduced in Lok Sabha Which of the following statemen...........

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Recently Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 was introduced in Lok Sabha. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding this bill?

1. This bill make the illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, eligible for Indian citizenship.

2. This bill reduced the requirements for citizenship by naturalisation from 11 years to six years for all the countries.

3. The Bill provides that the registration of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders may be cancelled if they violate any law.

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1 and 3 only

3 only

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Explanation:

Second statement is incorrect.
Under the Act, one of the requirements for citizenship by naturalisation is that the applicant must have resided in India during the last 12 months, and for 11 of the previous 14 years.
The Bill relaxes this 11 year requirement to six years for persons belonging to the same six religions and three countries only (not for all countries).
The proposed bill is also making amendments to provisions related to Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders.
The OCI cardholders are allowed some facilities like right to travel to India for work and study.
The bill proposed to allow government to cancel OCI registration if a person has violated any law.