The Maharashtra government has given an extension of three months to the cabinet sub-committee formed to study the citizenship laws — Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). The committee will now have to submit its report to the chief minister Uddhav Thackeray by August 31, 2021. The extension has been given due to COVID-19 crisis, stated a home department resolution on June 01.
The committee, headed by state transport minister Anil Parab, has got third extension this time. After being constituted on March 13, last year, the committee was supposed to submit its report on March 30, but since the state was affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, it was given the first extension of eight months till November 30. The second extension was given till May 31, this year.
The committee comprises of six members also have two representative ministers from each of the three coalition partners in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in the state.
The members include- Jitendra Awhad and Nawab Malik from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Anil Parab and Uday Samant from Shiv Sena, Sunil Kedar and Vijay Wadettiwar from the Congress.
"The crisis of COVID-19 is still there in the state in the current scenario. Hence, giving further extension to the committee was under consideration. The government has decided that the committee is given extension till August 31, 2021 to study CAA, NPR and NRC and submit its report to the government which will help the cabinet to take a final decision on the matter," said an home department official.
