Why is the Citizenship Act important in India?

Why is the Citizenship Act important in India? Sikhs and Hindus from Afghanistan in Delhi

India had only one Afghan school in Delhi, Syed Jamaluddin Afghan High School, and it was given a second life by the Narendra Modi led BJP government, a year after the government in Afghanistan collapsed in August last year. The school for Afghan refugees which is located at Jangpura, Delhi, faced an acute shortage of funds due to the Covid pandemic and government collapse in Afghanistan until the Ministry of External Affairs provided financial assistance to the school and ensured that it operated as usual. We all know that last year Talibani attacked the Afghan people and captured Afghanistan. After the attack by the Taliban a large number of Afghani people migrated to India.

Syed Jamaluddin Afghan School was first set up at Lajpat Nagar in 1994 and then shifted in the mid-2000s. It enrols pupils from classes 1-12 and employs 32 Afghan teachers. The school used to receive funds from the Afghanistan Ministry of Education through the embassy in Delhi. The school began facing problems with the onset of the Covid pandemic and it escalated after the fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban. The school didn’t have money to pay the teaching and non-teaching staffers, and later also could not afford the rent of the school premises at Jangpura. According to reports, the school was unable to pay the salaries of the staff members for 10 months and some of the staff members had to sell their assets to meet their basic needs. It is then the Ministry of External Affairs came to rescue and also asked the board members to shift the school to a new place and also resume the offline classes.