The grant of Indian citizenship is a multi-level and
multi-agency activity. As per rule 11 and 12 of the Citizenship Rules,
2009, an application for grant of Indian citizenship is to be
submitted by the applicant to the Collector/DM/DC within whose
jurisdiction the applicant is ordinarily a resident. The
Collector/DM/DC after satisfying himself regarding eligibility of the
applicant to become a citizen of India, forwards the application to the
State Government/UT administration concerned. The State Government/UT
administration in turn forwards the application, along with its
recommendation, to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Thereafter, the
application is processed further as per the provisions of the
Citizenship Act, 1955 and the rules made there under. Since initial
application is submitted to the Collector/DM concerned and a number of
agencies are involved in the processing of applications for grant of
citizenship, no case/religion based centralized data of such
applications is maintained. All cases received in the Ministry of Home
Affairs are processed as expeditiously as possible. 1290 applications
of Pakistani nationals were received from various State Governments/UTs
for grant of Indian citizenship by registration and naturalization
during last three years i.e. 2009-2011. Indian citizenship was granted
to 764 Pakistan nationals during this period.
The MEA and State Governments concerned are consulted from time to time.
This was stated by Shri Mullappally Ramachandran, Minister of State of
Home Affairs in written reply to a question by Sh.Bharatsinh Prabhatsinh
Parmar and Sh.Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala in the Rajya Sabha
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