Question

What is the full form of CAA?
A.Clean Air Authority
B.Clean Air Allowance
C.Clean Air Act
D.None of these

Answer 1

Hint: CAA has been one of the most controversial acts that has been passed by the current ruling NDA government in their second term from 2019.

Complete step by step solution:
Options A and B: are incorrect because the Clean Air Authority and Clean Air Allowance do not exist.
Option C: is incorrect. Even though the Clean Air Act of 1970 exists, it is a federal law in the USA and cannot be used as an acronym in the same context as India. The Act contains provisions to prevent air pollution, mainly pollutants that cause depletion of the ozone layer.
Option D: is correct. The full form of CAA in India is the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019. This legislation contains provisions to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 on which persecuted migrants can be provided citizenship to and on what basis. The Amendment mainly states that illegal migrants who fulfil these conditions will not be treated as illegal migrants under the Act. The conditions are— they are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis or Christians; they are from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan; and they entered India on or before December 31, 2014. The passage of this Act caused large scale protests across India for being discriminatory against Muslim migrants from these countries. Violent protests in Assam and northeastern states were held against the bill over fears that granting Indian citizenship to refugees and immigrants will cause a loss of their "political rights, culture and land rights" and motivate further migration from Bangladesh.

Note: The CAA was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 9, 2019, and was passed by the Lok Sabha on the same day itself. It was then passed by the Rajya Sabha on December 11, 2019.