Objectives & Agenda :
The objective of the webinar shall be to provide a sense of all the commotion around the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, its relationship to the Assam Accord and the National Register of Citizens(NRC). In the first part, the webinar traces the evolution of the Citizenship laws in India while providing special focus on the changes envisaged by the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. In the second part, it discusses the Assam Accord and its implementation with respect to the NRC. The webinar concludes with the proposed nationwide NRC and its link with National Population Register.