A team of Home Ministry officials will soon travel to a select number of districts in various states in order to resolve problems of citizenship and long- term visa (LTV) faced by minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
A meeting in this regard was today held in the Ministry under the chairmanship of Additional Secretary (Foreigners) B K Prasad with about 75 representatives from 15 associations to discuss problems being faced by them in this regard.
"It was decided that the teams of MHA officials will visit 24 identified districts for citizenship in eight states and 14 districts for LTV cases of these applicants. The visiting officials will hold camps during the next two months and assist the applicants in the settlement of citizenship/LTV cases," a Home Ministry statement said.
The 24 districts relating to citizenship are Indore and Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Nagpur, Thane, Mumbai city, Pune, Amravati and Jalgaon (Maharashtra), Ahmedabad, Surat, Kutch, Rajkot, Patan, Banskantha and Gandhi Nagar (Gujarat), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Barmer (Rajasthan), Sirsa (Haryana) and Bangalore, Krishna and Karwar (Karnataka).
For LTV, the fourteen districts are Indore and Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur (Maharashtra), Ahmedabad and Gandhi Nagar (Gujarat), Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Barmer (Rajasthan), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Bangalore, Krishna and Karwar (Karnataka).
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had set up the Task Force to monitor and expedite processing of citizenship and LTV applications on September 5 last.
